From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:54:25 +0100 Message-ID: <85ejs7tpta.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odrdzci9.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87ac2w45e0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20061113114350.GA28313@intevation.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163426127 3336 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 13:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 14:55:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjcGw-0005SE-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:54:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjcGv-0007lA-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjcGj-0007jS-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjcGi-0007hE-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjcGh-0007gx-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GjcGi-0001YE-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GjcGg-0002BP-Qe; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6FB0E1CD9DA7; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:54:25 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 14\:35\:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62213 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 11/13/06, Miles Bader wrote: > >> I tried to use mercurial a long time ago, and noticed it seemed to have >> only very poor renaming support -- renames basically seemed to show up >> as delete+add > > That's also true in Subversion (well, copy+delete, I think) though > true renames are very much requested and so they will eventually be > implemented (I'm not tracking Subversion development closely, so I > don't know whether that will be sooner rather than later). You see me surprised. I had thought that file tree movements (which seem to be close enough to renaming) were one of the major selling points of Subversion over CVS. Not having tried it myself, I can't judge this, but I would have expected something different from the announcements and goals I seem to remember. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum