Re: Warn recent changes in files being deleted: does it make sense?

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:02:58 +0200
Jens-Heiner Rechtien <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does it really "detect" these cases or does that only work when "hg
> > rename" was being used. If I would have used only filesystem
> > commands to rename files would hg recognize that?
> 
> How should any SCM detect filesystem only renames? This is just asked
> to much. You have to use "hg rename", of course. Anything else would
> have to rely on heuristics which might fail, hardly something a SCM
> can do.
Just as a sidenote: Its possible to "mercurify" filesystem only
renames with "hg addremove". While it relies on heuristics, it helps in
those "Ooops, I already moved it with $SOMETOOL"-situations. It was
even able to detect most of the moves of files between milestones on a
filesystem basis when I used a local mercurial repo over my svn
cws (before the pilot).

BR,

Bjoern


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