Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: >> Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: > >> Almost all of them in this regard because they _track_ the operations >> (like renaming a file) done while Git only records directory snapshots >> and the commit graph. But that also means that you need to be careful >> how you rearrange things in other version control systems so that they >> can track the ancestry of material, and moving material between files or >> splitting or merging files generally leads to a loss of significant >> amounts of information. > Very interesting! > > Although that gets a bit off topic: > > I do a lot of moving and or renaming in my repositories. > > Now if I use vc-annotate in either git or hg repositories, the changes > are displayed correctly, however what does not work is > vc-annotate-prev-revision for a file that I have renamed.
In Git it should work (if you _combine_ renaming a file with changing its contents in a single commit, git blame may need additional options to track this). In Hg it likely depends on whether you renamed using the version control system or outside of it. > Maybe this is impossible. Unlikely... -- David Kastrup
