warning about divergent renames
Dirkjan Ochtman
dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Fri Sep 10 14:29:55 CDT 2010
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 20:34, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> This is another instance of an issue that needs full historical context
> to progress.
>
> There originally wasn't a warning, then I added one after various people
> complained. Notably there's a warning in the book about Mercurial not
> doing -more- in this case.
I suspected something like that. Do you know/remember what the edge
cases are why people would want to be aware of this? I think it has to
do with merging, right? When you merge a file that has modifications
on one side and a divergent rename on the other?
Cheers,
Dirkjan
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