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

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.
> 
Hi Heiner,

hm, why is there any heuristic needed? If, for a commit, a file
vanishes on one place in the tree and re-appears in another, it's a
move - and that's how git handles such cases; automagically. ;)

Cheers,

-- Thorsten

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