Completed rename support

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:46:34AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-12-02 12:40, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > The last piece of planned rename support, detection of
> > directory renames at merge time, is now in tip. When either
> > side of a merge moves all the files in a directory to another
> > directory, files added to that directory on the other branch of
> > the merge will also be moved.
> > 
> > I'm planning to release 0.9.2 next Friday so testing here is
> > appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!  When one of the heads modifies a file things seem to
> work fine now :)
> 
> When one of the heads (either local or remote) removes a file
> though, the user is prompted for *each* file with something like:
> 
> % remote changed a/a which local deleted
> % (k)eep or (d)elete? k
> 
> or
> 
> %  local changed a/a which remote deleted
> % (k)eep or (d)elete? k

This behavior has been there since the beginning of time, are you
seeing something new?
 
> This is probably ok for a single file or two, but for dozens of
> files it will be hard to keep answering all the prompts.  What
> seems odd at this prompt is that there is no way to see *what*
> the local or remote changed, so it's kind of hard to make a
> really informed decision about keeping the changes or deleting
> the file.
> 
> The only good-enough action at this point (at least for me) is
> usually to abort the merge, "hg up -C" to a known head and diff
> with the other head looking for stuff that would be interesting.

You can open another window and hg diff -r -r. An option to show a
diff here would be useful, agreed.

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