Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: > Sure, but there is no need to rely on heuristics where none is needed.
Heuristics are good enough in many cases. Metadata + heuristics is better though. > Back to the original use case which triggered this thread. If you do > rename of a Java class in an IDE then not only the file name will be > changed but also quite a number of places inside the file. > Relying here on heuristics, is asking for trouble, I think. The IDE > should simply issue a SCM rename operation IMHO. > > Be explicit where possible. And if you rename a Java package, it's nice if your VCS can capture that too (by recording a directory rename). Ian C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
