An equivalent of the Subversion 'copy' command.

[Talden]

Does anyone know of an intention to deliver an equivalent to the
Subversion 'copy' command.

A recent reorganisation of our project content presented a number of
cases where content was split up and both new files contain most of
the original (that is a copy and a modify).  The original file was
also modified and kept as the template.  Modifications here account
for a tiny amount of content yet without a cheap copy we have added a
couple of tens of MBs in content to history.

Avoiding this redundant growth in the history seems a no-brainer goal
for a DVCS (though possibly not trivial to implement - I don't know
the underlying structures of the repo).  Additionally, it would be
nice for merges of branches taken earlier than this reorganisation to
propagate changes through to these derived files to offer candidate
content to merge (these might justifiably be considered conflicts)...

A short hunt on google yielded only passing mentions of this feature
and no suggestion it is likely to be added (though there seemed no
reluctance to add it either).

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Talden