possible bug in hg log for files added, removed and re-added

[Bastian Doetsch]

Am Samstag, den 21.06.2008, 12:26 -0500 schrieb Matt Mackall:

> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 16:57 +0200, Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've stumbled over an issue in hg log that puzzles me and I think this
> > could be a Mercurial bug, although I'm not quite sure. 
> > 
> > It seems as if Mercurial doesn't handle the situation properly, when a
> > file is added, removed and afterwards re-added.
> > 
> > Below you can find two hg commands I entered and their correspondent
> > results. The repository is at http://hg.assembla.com/mercurialeclipse if
> > you wanna have a look at it.
> > 
> > My question is, why the first hg command doesn't yield changeset 335 as
> > result, although the file is clearly part of the fields+ tag and was
> > added (for the second time) in this changeset. Moreover, why isn't a
> > changeset shown for the removal of javaCompiler...args?
> 
> File-level logging only shows revisions where the -contents- of a file
> get changed. In particular it won't show:
> 
> - when a file is deleted
> - when a file gets readded with the same contents
> - when permission bits change
> - when a merge happens without conflicts
> 


Ah that explains it - thanks. I now wonder, what's the reason for this
constraint?

Bastian
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