On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 09:05 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 18:13 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote:
quoted
All in all, not ideal, but it seems bzr handles this better than bk.
Certainly, bzr doesn't silently drop anyone's changes, at least. I
suspect that bzr could improve its handling of this use case, but not,
I'm sure, to Linus's specifications; some of the fun and games does
seem to come from the use of file IDs.
...
However, I'm still convinced that tracking the user intention of renames
leads to a slicker system than renames via inference. My off the cuff
list of corner cases is:
I meant to add, that I think inference is a great tool to use as an
adjunct to whatever explicit data one can capture.
-Rob
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