Mark Phippard writes:
> "Ivan Zhakov" <chemodax@gmail.com> wrote on 04/16/2006 03:57:49 PM:
>
> > I've already posted patch to enable moving moved files. But there was
> > objections on idea itself. See discussion here:
> > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-12/0020.shtml
>
> Is there any chance this could get revived? It didn't seem the objections
> were that strong, I thought they were seeking more work or clarification.
> It would stink to discard a useful feature over theoretical disputes. One
> thing that occurs to me is what if we initially limited the scope of the
> patch to the move subcommand? Refactoring almost exclusively uses
> move/rename and there really isn't any ambiguity that I can see to
> supporting letting a file or folder be moved multiple times.
>
I'm +1 on lifting this restriction. I don't see why not recording the
intermediate state of the WC is a problem in this case.
Say you move a line inside a file and then move it again. The commit
will show this as a delete and an add in the final place leaving no
trace of the intermediate state. I think we can view a copy/move of a
file in the same way. Also, the reason we keep copyfrom information
is to trace history. However, the intermediate path really doesn't
have any history to trace, so to speak:-)
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Mon Apr 17 16:06:55 2006