Re: Understanding move & merge

Lele Gaifax <lele@seldati.it> writes:
> KF> It turns out that there are some complexities involved in
> KF> implementing true renames that are actually quite difficult to
> KF> deal with, so we've simply postponed dealing with it till
> KF> after 1.0.
>
> Are those documented somewhere?

Yes, in the code and in some issues, I believe.

> KF> In Subversion there are still a few bugs about certain
> KF> commands not following copy history correctly
>
> Uhm, I missed this! Am I wrong understanding this as "it's not the
> copy+delete implementation that prevents this to happen, but it's a
> bug in the merge command"?

Well, the bugs are about following history, so they'd be present
whether the history was a "copy" or an atomic "rename". (The nature
of the historical traces is the same -- there's an ancestor, and then
a new thing based on that ancestor.)

In other words, no, it's not the copy+delete implementation.

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Received on Mon Jan 20 19:45:48 2003