Tracking filesystem entries as first-class VCS citizens

[Matthieu Moy]

Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> "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.

Git does track permission bit and directory Vs plain file Vs symlinks
too.

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Matthieu Moy
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