On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:29:03PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> It would be a bit easier to read if there were a third section in
> the tracker for renames, rather than having them in the Removals
> and Additions sections.
The detection tool runs solely based on the CVSROOT 'History' file.
Based on that alone, we cannot detect a rename reliably.

If something gets renamed or removed in quick sucession, the updates
tracking files can be out of date as well

> Obviously the syntax of each line would have to be different; perhaps
> something like the {old⇒new} syntax would allow each change to be on
> a single line in a (human+machine)-readable fashion?
Two sets of output are already provide. One for humans, and one for
machines.

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