Tracking filesystem entries as first-class VCS citizens

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> I meant precisely that if you don't agree that a VCS's mission is
> limited to managing content, but rather should include more of the
> state of the system, you won't think that git/hg do a good enough job
> of tracking renames.
[…]

Or any of the other filesystem attributes that are useful to track in a
VCS.

> Does that make more sense now?

Yes, thanks for making it clearer.

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