An automatic detection of moved files would be great, but i think you have to have an explicit option in addition. Why? When refactoring Java Code (rename a class, for example), the name of the file AND the file content changes simultaneously. It is an atomic operation from within Eclipse (and all other major Java IDEs). How can this be later detected by an algorithm? Ciao,   Steffen (scameronde) <div>On 11/3/06, Aaron Bentley <<a href="mailto:aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca">aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hanns-Steffen Eichenberg wrote: > I really would like to see an option like '--after' for the mv command. > Has this feature been discussed before? Is the idea good or am i missing > something that makes it just plain silly? > RFC. We should definitely support this functionality.  In the past, we've discussed not requiring a special flag to do this, just detecting that the file has already moved, and just moving the file_id. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFFS0kI0F+nu1YWqI0RAl8YAKCGO72FPKSpKjNR6Bu831pLHhtR2wCfceLW WgWlLaygelqH/SXfUQt4HB8= =vAtG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div>