Re: Proper tracking of file-level operations: rename, directories, merges

[Mark A. Flacy]

I'm curious about the use case where this information is considered useful.  I ask because I honestly can't think of one.

Jared Silva <jayrod at gmail.com> wrote:


>You may consider it of minimal impact, and you may consider 'cp foo
>bar; 
>bzr add bar' a valid workaround, but that is based on your use cases. 
>I 
>am sure there are many others, myself included, where their use cases
>do 
>not allow for this as a valid workaround, as it does not track and 
>preserve history as many expect from their VCS.  Again, the heat for 
>this bug speaks to that.  This bug is the number one feature reason for
>
>me not switching all of my repositories to bzr, as I need the VCS to 
>adequately track and preserve the history of copies for most of my 
>repositories.
>
>I think if bzr wants to grow its user base significantly, it should 
>specifically target existing svn users, and I bet this is one of the 
>features holding many back on svn.



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