Tracking files and file-level operations

[Chris Hecker]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I would really like copy support in bzr!  I do 
split files, I just rename more often.

Chris



On 2010/07/20 01:29, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> On 20/07/2010 07:59, Chris Hecker wrote:
>> I think it's pretty silly that bzr doesn't support copies, but I do
>> agree with their
>> rationale that renames are more important (at least in my experience),
>> so I think it's
>> slightly sillier that Hg doesn't support renames (it's one of the
>> reasons I chose bzr over
>> hg, I rename stuff all the time, but split more rarely, and hosing svn
>> repeatedly with
>> complex renames that are a walk in the park for bzr is what made me
>> finally switch to a
>> dvcs at all).
>
> Indeed, rename is more frequent that split, but still I often split
> files and then regret there is no support for this in the history.
> It depends on programmer's workflow, but (depending on language), I
> often add stuff to a file until it works, then I step back and starts
> splitting the file to get cleaner separation of tasks, etc. I tend to do
> complex code first, then refactor it until it looks readable and elegant...
>
> At work, due to legacy changes, we often have monster Java classes over
> 50KB (of source!) and some even weight over 200KB... Splitting these
> classes looks like a good idea (often pushed back because of fear of
> breaking stuff and lack of time, but that's another story).
> We don't use Bazaar but I just wanted to expose a probably common use case.
>
>  > It's slightly unbelievable that none of git/bzr/hg/svn support both
> as first class
>  > operations.
>
> I know next to nothing with Git, but from threads in this mailing list,
> I thought it was able to track file fragments or something.
>