On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/31/2013 5:08 PM, Steve Borho wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Does tortoisehg provide a way to do an hg copy? I see rename on the
>> context menus, but not copy.
>>
>> I know there's a "detect renames" facility, which actually says "detect
>> copy/renames" when it opens, but I find it quite slow and awkward.
>>
>
> The rename dialog has a checkbox that toggles between rename and copy.
> Also, if you do a right-click drag in explorer it will offer 'hg copy' and
> 'hg rename' as move options.
>
> I tried right-click drag and got a bunch of alternatives including "Hg
> copy versioned item(s) here". When I clicked on it some Hg popup appeared
> extremely briefly, and then everything remained as before.
>
> Should that work? I dragged to the same directory as the original file,
> and so making a copy with the same name would be undesirable. I was
> expecting either to get prompted for a new name or get the Windows standard
> "Copy of foo" when you copy file foo in the same directory.
>
> Fortunately right clicking on the file (without drag) allowed me to select
> Hg rename; as you indicated it let me make a copy with a new name.
>
Making a copy in the same folder is not well supported by the shell
extension method.
--
Steve Borho
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