[patch] add Transport.rename

[Robey Pointer]

On 20 Feb 2006, at 21:32, John A Meinel wrote:

> Martin Pool wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 18:58 -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
>>
>>> +1 also.
>>
>> OK, I'll see about merging that across into bzr.dev.
>>
>>> The default implementation in base Transport will be buggy,
>>> though (since the 2 different operations are implemented  
>>> identically).
>>
>> Perhaps I should leave it unimplemented in the default Transport  
>> then,
>> and force writable transports to implement it.
>>
>
> The only problem I have with adding it to Transport instead of a
> separate function, is that it is currently used as osutils.rename() on
> win32. This is because all of the merge code which uses atomic replace
> needs it.

I still think that means it should be used by LocalTransport on  
Windows, not exposed external to Transport.

robey