Hi Heiner,

bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:02:58 +0200
> Jens-Heiner Rechtien <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Does it really "detect" these cases or does that only work when "hg
>>> rename" was being used. If I would have used only filesystem
>>> commands to rename files would hg recognize that?
>> How should any SCM detect filesystem only renames? This is just asked
>> to much. You have to use "hg rename", of course. Anything else would
>> have to rely on heuristics which might fail, hardly something a SCM
>> can do.
> Just as a sidenote: Its possible to "mercurify" filesystem only
> renames with "hg addremove". While it relies on heuristics, it helps in
> those "Ooops, I already moved it with $SOMETOOL"-situations. It was
> even able to detect most of the moves of files between milestones on a
> filesystem basis when I used a local mercurial repo over my svn
> cws (before the pilot).

Yeah, but I would hate if people would rely on "addremove" doing the
right thing without further thinking a bit about what they are doing in
our project.

Björn, you are spoiling my didactic efforts! :-)

Regards,
   Heiner


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