[MERGE] Deprecate tree.find_renames

[Aaron Bentley]

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For some reason, this was marked superseded, but I don't think that's
accurate.  Could someone look at it?

Aaron

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Ever heard of the "renames" command?  Or tree.find_renames?  They were
> introduced in the prehistoric days of revision 164, and haven't changed
> much since then.  I just ran across find_renames today.
> 
> find_renames is a poor API nowadays, because it takes two inventories as
> its input.  But more unfortunately, it considers a file renamed if its
> parent directory is renamed.  So "bzr status" is a much better indicator
> of which files have actually been renamed.
> 
> I've started by deprecating find_renames, because inventory-based APIs
> are bad.  I've implemented cmd_renames in terms of iter_changes.
> 
> I'm also inclined to hide the "renames" command.  Any objections?
> 
> Aaron
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