two factors for switching to Mercurial

[Martin Geisler]

"Peter Arrenbrecht" <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk> wrote:
>> I guess this feature negates the claims of Bazaar people that they
>> have better rename support than Hg... [...]
>
> Ahem. Not exactly. Hg infers directory moves from file moves. Now
> this may or may not have been the mover's intention. I agree it's
> rather unlikely to ever be a serious problem, but from a theoretical
> point of view, Bzr has the upper hand here.

Yes, I agree. Which is a shame :-)

> The issue I cited above,
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue850, demonstrates this
> case. Bzr handles both cases correctly, following the users
> intention. Hg does not.

Ah, now I see what that issue was about -- I only read it quickly at
first and thought to myself that everything seemed to work as I
expected.

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