If I rename a file (both on disk and with FOSSIL REN command), and then try to do a [G]DIFF command –FROM a date where the file had the old name, I get the message that the file does not exist in that checkin.
So, once I rename a file I lose the connection to all its history and the changes made to it? I understand it now has a different name, but it seems to me that part of keeping history of changes is to also know that the name changed, so if I want to get the diff from version A to version B it should do so even if the file has changed names between the two versions (because FOSSIL knows – or should know -- about this change of name). I also suspect (but haven’t tested to see if it is so) that if the old checkin happened to have a file with the same name as the current version’s renamed one (but the old version’s was at some point either renamed or deleted), FOSSIL would try to give me the DIFF between two completely unrelated files. That just doesn’t seem correct behavior. Comments?
_______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
