Re: Understanding move merge

On 21 January 2003, Branko ??ibej said:
 Yes. Renaming a node should not affect its history.

But I *like* to see a log entry saying Renamed from foo to bar or
Moved from ../foo to here, even if no lines of content changed in that
revision.

 The effect of a
 cp+rm is to create a new branch in the node's history (and remove an old
 one); that is obviously wrong, because, under our model, a rename does
 not constitute a modification of the node, only a modification of its
 (old and new) parent directory. In simple terms, after an svn mv in a
 clean working copy, svn st should show one or two modified
 directories, but no modified files.

Ahh, I understand your rationale for why a rename should not affect the
history of the renamed object. I think you're putting purity ahead of
practicality here. Renaming a file is an important event in its
history, and IMHO worthy of logging.

 (Of course, the user would want to know that the file was moved, so svn
 st should show something for usability's sake; but what it shows should
 not be a modified state but a renamed state. That means yet another
 status letter, but perhaps not.)

And here, you're putting practicality ahead of purity!

        Greg

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