On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:20 PM, bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is roughly what I'm doing, but it's not 100% accurate, and for
> the case of 100s of files, still tedious. I guess the point is that
> there's not any special secret method available with-in or outside
> fossil (outside of trying to tease-out the "root" of a filename and
> pair-up ea. MISSING w/ it's EXTRA counterpart.
>

Other than figuring out all the needed patterns to find and "normalize" the
names of the files, I don't know of any "special sauce" you can use.


> In this sense, the behavour of git (iiuc) would be roughly what I want
> where it tracks bytes, not files (this is what I think I undertand; it
> allows git to track a function being moved from one file to another --
> I don't understand how it works, but it sounds like what I want --
> keep track of collections of bytes regardless of the name of their
> container (the filename).
>

I didn't know git could do that.

Ignoring function renames and polymorphism, I can see using something like
ctags to virtually subdivide files into functions for tracking at that
level.
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