On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 10:24 AM, paul <pault.eg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If fossil mv also moves files on a filesystem, I'd be happy with that,
> so long
> > as I can still use a file browser as I'm doing now.
>
> All other VCSes I’ve used that do one-step mv [*] cope with this case
> transparently.  They see that the on-disk file is already moved, so they
> just take your command as a request to reflect the change in the repo, too.
>

I suppose the VCS could match the hashes of the "missing" files to the
hashes of the "new" files to detect any moved/renamed files.

However, that fails if the moved files were also edited, so there would
still have to a way to explicitly tell the VCS about moved/renamed files.
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