[RFC] usability of mercurial

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 13:15:04 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:50 -0500, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> > Would it be possible to record this information in the future?
> 
> I haven't thought much about whether having deltas follow renames and
> copies would require this, but I doubt it.  In that case, there would be
> little pressure to add such a feature.

Well, the user case is:

There is a versioned tree containing directory foo.
Now on a branch A, foo/qyzzy.c is created.
Meanwhile on branch B, foo is renamed to bar.
The branches are merged. Result should contain bar/qyzzy.c.

Now you don't need to record directories per se, but you need to record
renames as renames of directories and not as renames of all files within (as
that would not rename the new file).

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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