On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:43:47PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 14:41:41 Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:23:04AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 June 2007 06:12:14 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > > I, for one, would welcome something similar to svn cp and svn mv, > > > > which allows you to copy and rename files (I'm thinking patches) > > > > while preserving change history. > > > > > > Could we better frame this as "I wish our SCM would allow for renaming > > > and/or copying source controlled files to new names, while preserving the > > > recorded history of the file within the SCM." ? (I just don't want to > > > see a lot of requests be tied to a particular SCM or another, just pure > > > features. > > > > FWIW one could rephrase it with "Every SCM, but CVS". This is a CVS > > limitation that any willing successor has fixed, I don't think any of > > the systems we're thinking about has this flaw. > > Well, hg cannot do this yet. It has a function to copy a file, but all it > really does is hg rm <oldfile>; hg add <newfile>. yes, this is dumb. :( I think it is more like "copy, then remove", which is all you really want as the history can be propagated back through the copy/rename operation (-f option to any relevant hg command will do the trick). What you're quoting is more the CVS variant of renaming, e.g. no scm relation between the two operations at all. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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