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

Hi Heiner,

On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Jens-Heiner Rechtien 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.

git does exactly this, ie. has no concept of remembering the renames, and 
instead relies only on the heuristics.  It works well :-)

HTH,
Kendy