Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread bch
On 11/16/15, Ron W wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, bch wrote: > >> In the immediate case, it's me tracking 3rd party vendor code which I >> depend on. I untar, add, commit. On upstream updates, I nuke the >> 3rd-party >> code, lay down the

Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread bch
In the immediate case, it's me tracking 3rd party vendor code which I depend on. I untar, add, commit. On upstream updates, I nuke the 3rd-party code, lay down the new release and this is where we might find renaming issues as I described. On Nov 16, 2015 9:24 AM, "Ron W"

Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, bch wrote: > In the immediate case, it's me tracking 3rd party vendor code which I > depend on. I untar, add, commit. On upstream updates, I nuke the 3rd-party > code, lay down the new release and this is where we might find renaming >

Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:20 PM, bch wrote: > This is roughly what I'm doing, but it's not 100% accurate, and for > the case of 100s of files, still tedious. I guess the point is that > there's not any special secret method available with-in or outside > fossil (outside of

Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
On 11/16/2015 6:00 PM, bch wrote: Further to that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4908336/can-git-really-track-the-movement-of-a-single-function-from-1-file-to-another-i To be clear, I don't fully understand what the git model is (I repeatedly hear "it doesn't track files", but I haven't

Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread bch
On 11/16/15, Ron W wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:20 PM, bch wrote: > >> This is roughly what I'm doing, but it's not 100% accurate, and for >> the case of 100s of files, still tedious. I guess the point is that >> there's not any special secret

Re: [fossil-users] Slight file renames

2015-11-16 Thread Noam Postavsky
[apologies if shows this up twice, but I think I messed up the first time] On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:20 PM, bch wrote: > In this sense, the behavour of git (iiuc) would be roughly what I want > where it tracks bytes, not files (this is what I think I undertand; it > allows