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Re: Refactoring in Eclipse

From: Reinhard Poetz <reinhard_at_apache.org>
Date: 2004-08-02 20:57:54 CEST

Gabor Nagypal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I gave a try to subclipse+subversion recently and I noticed that if
> you do refactoring in a Java project (e.g. Refactor/Rename), instead
> of a subversion move command an add and a remove command are
> scheduled. As a net effect, after the commit I loose all of the
> history information on the renamed file. Is there some possibility to
> change this behaviour?
>
> In my opinion onw of the best things that subversion can provide is
> the support for file-renaming, this makes it possible to do
> refactoring and version control at the same time, a feature which was
> not possible with CVS.
>
See http://subclipse.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108
In short: It's not a problem with losing the history but a problem with
showing the complete history in Subclipse.

BTW, a move in subclipse is equivalent to copy and delete
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/re18.html)

-- 
Reinhard
Received on Tue Aug 3 04:57:54 2004

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