You can probably use hg mv -A too, then webrev should pick it up whatever mercurial prepared in the change set.
Cheers, Mario Il 04/nov/2013 18:46 "Phil Race" <philip.r...@oracle.com> ha scritto: > I had this problem recently and I don't think you need restore the files - > just the directory. > I used hg mv to relocate the files but because *all* files were moved out > of the directory so hg deleted the directory. It was sufficient to > mkdir <the-old-dir> again for webrev to properly recognise the files as > moved. > > -phil. > > On 11/4/2013 9:27 AM, David DeHaven wrote: > >> Unfortunately, WebRev is not very intelligent at presenting these >>> changes. :-( I have made modifications to files that I have also moved, but >>> WebRev just lists these files as "New" without any reference or diff with >>> the original file. I don't know if if is possible to get an improved >>> behaviour. I'm using the -f flag, on a repo that is cloned locally from the >>> one I based the previous review on. >>> >> Is it complaining that it can't find the old versions? In those cases if >> you temporarily restore the old file then webrev should be able to show a >> diff of the content changes too, as long as the old version doesn't become >> re-managed. You could use rsync to restore the old files from a pristine >> clone, then hg purge to nuke when done. >> >> -DrD- >> >> >