bzr copy (Re: Weekly 0.10 release status)

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:00 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Andrew Bennetts schrieb:
> [...]
> > > So, I don't actually know what you're asking to include in bzr 1.0.
> > The minimum requirement is "copy a b" has no effect on a and b is a copy
> > of it and knows about this fact. (bzr log would say "copied: a => b",
> > simular to "renamed: a => b" for bzr rename). Also bzr log displays
> > the history which was copied from a and bzr annotate also knows
> > in what revision of a lines have changed.

> (I don't have a strong opinion on this feature; it'd be nice I guess, but I
> doubt I'd ever actually use it, so I don't care if it's in 1.0 or not.  I know I
> haven't seen "svn copy" used except for branching before, but I'm curious to
> hear about people who have and found it useful.)
The main use case (at least for me) is tracking history when splitting
large files. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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