[darcs-devel] [issue642] Automatic detection of file renames

[gabriele renzi]

New submission from gabriele renzi <rff_rff at yahoo.it>:

Using darcs in conjunction with other SCM without explicit import (i.e. I use
darcs on a project where the vendor/ directory contains an svn checkout) it is
difficult to keep track of file renames, because darcs sees a file rename in the
svn checkout just as a missing file and a new non-added one.

It would be nice if darcs, at record time, could look for renames (possibly as a
command line option, on the lines of --look-for-adds).
If file FOO is missing but there are new files BAR and BAZ and one of those has
the same content of a missing file darcs could suggest including it in the patch
and thus recording a single `move` patch instead of rmfile+addfile+content.

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messages: 3085
nosy: beschmi, droundy, kowey, riffraff, tommy
priority: wishlist
status: unread
title: Automatic detection of file renames
topic: Darcs2, UI

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