Re: Switching to Subversion

[Bill Wohler]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/13/06, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I tried to use mercurial a long time ago, and noticed it seemed to have
>> only very poor renaming support -- renames basically seemed to show up
>> as delete+add
>
> That's also true in Subversion (well, copy+delete, I think) though
> true renames are very much requested and so they will eventually be
> implemented (I'm not tracking Subversion development closely, so I
> don't know whether that will be sooner rather than later).

Just to be clear: the revision history is maintained. If you rename
foo to bar to baz and do "svn log baz", you see all of the changes to
foo.

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