Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. git for one doesn't "preserve recorded history for a file", and can't do it by fundamental design (it just records snapshots after changes). It has tools that help in finding out where the stuff you see (presumably) came from. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
