Re: Can subversion track structural changes? In different copies? And merge them?

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> please consider the following scenario. A file in trunk is renamed,
>> but in a branch changes to the same file are also made.
[..]

> This is issue 898: Implement true renames. Because renames are
> currently implemented as a Copy+Delete, it's not possible to determine
> whether a file stems from a Copy or Rename operation.

>> I am really at a loss here, can somebody open my eyes please? ;-)
Well, sorta ;-)

I read the issue report,
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898, and it has been
filed four years ago. So that lets me believe the feature is not
important at all. Hence I am probably doing something the wrong way and
  there is an easy workaround for tracking changes in resource names and
directories.

The question is, what does the workaround look like?

Otherwise this would mean that all svn users don't use branches and
merge automagically. Or they don't do any structural changes, besides
adding new files.

Or don't I get it?

Cheers,
Mariano

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Received on Thu Sep 7 12:20:46 2006