On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:46 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Technically, it rename/move dialog should be a full-blown file chooser
>> dialog, as files can be moved/renamed to another directory. The Status
>> window handle move and rename separately, so we can live with a simple
>> rename dialog. But hgtk mv might be a better one.
>
> Optimally, we would support moves in the shell extension.  A right-drag into
> a folder would pop up a context menu with options:  'revisioned move',
> 'revisioned copy'
>
> In practice, I expect most Windows users to just move and rename their files
> willy-nilly and then expect Mercurial to figure out what happened at commit
> time.  That's where my idea of a 'find renames' dialog would be useful.

My idea I've had for a long time is to implement the copy extension
for copy/move/rename, which should be more 'natural' for Window users.
But I have never found the time look at it though.

> This simple rename dialog is just to make it _nearly_ as easy to rename a
> file in a way that Mercurial is immediately aware of (we'll even update the
> overlays).

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