From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Wheter to switch to another VC, and which one... Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:24:18 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040324102413.GA32548@fencepost> References: <20040323142253.7985.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040323163658.7991.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040323233518.GA5934@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080124679 17317 80.91.224.253 (24 Mar 2004 10:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 24 11:37:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B65li-0004qq-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:37:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B65li-0000ct-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:37:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B65gF-0008R8-Ot for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B65fh-0008QN-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:31:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B65d8-0007ap-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B65d7-0007aJ-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:29:01 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B65YY-0000OZ-DB; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:24:18 -0500 Original-To: "Kim F. Storm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20845 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20845 On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:52:34AM +0100, Kim F. Storm wrote: > > > We have discussed moving quite a lot of the lisp files around, and > > > doing that under Subversion (which keep history across moves) would be > > > a big win compared to CVS. > > > > Arch too (of course). > > Does it keep the history on the moved/renamed file as well? > > Ah, yes, I suppose arch can do that with the arch tag on each file. The thing to remember is that arch doesn't keep per-file history _at all_ -- log files are associated with changesets. In many cases, this is actually more useful than a per-file history, but sometimes you do want to see that. As it turns out, there's enough information kept in the changeset logs that you can easily (and automatically) track a file's evolution through a series of changesets. I have a shell script (`tla-file-log') that does this and emits cvs-style log output. However, in practice I find I rarely use it; more often I just want to see the overall branch history. -Miles -- "I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task." --Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research