Re: peg-rev and checkout

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Will there be a tool to convert an old repository with "fake renames" into
> "real renames" (possibly - but not necessarily - withouth having to go through
> a full dump/load cycle)? If this tool is not planned / will not exist, the
> forward-trace heuristic you speak of (guessing fake renames as real renames)
> might be worth it.

Such a transformation will almost certainly require a dump/load cycle. It's
not as if we're just changing some "action" variable from "copy+delete" to
"move". True renames are handled quite differently -- at deep, fundamental
levels -- than copy and delete.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand