Re: issue #898

Branko Cibej wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:23, Branko Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> At one point we even had a true rename in the filesystem, but it turned
>>> out to be sort of useless because the client and RA layers and editors
>>> couldn't handle it.
>>>
>> Then you may be happy to hear that wc-ng will have the capability to
>> record moves. I've also got move operations in my editor redesign
>> thinking. Of course, layers that don't understand that will see
>> copy/delete, but we can start to propagate move information as far as
>> possible.
>>
>
> Yup, saw that, and indeed I am happy, happy! :)

Based on my experience with the FS atomic renames design and implementation,
I remain cautiously pessimistic about how far these changes will take us.
That doesn't discount the goodness of the changes, though, of course.

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