On 10/14/05, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2005/10/13, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > BTW, have you used mercurial for real? When I tried it out, it didn't > > > seem to handle file-renaming in any sane manner (as far as I could > > > tell, it just modelled renaming as add+delete, which utterly destroys > > > merging), and that's a pretty fatal flaw. > > > > No, it's not a fatal flaw... see, I've had too much of Linus' > > kool-aid > > Er, clearly. The rest of your message basically says "trust me, we'll > somehow figure out how to handle this before things get _too_ painful, > it's not nearly as bad as it looks..." (followed by a bunch of furious > hand-waving) -- but neglects to demonstrate a usable mechanism. Is > there one?
Sorry, I should have clarified. I'm a believer because I've seen it work. It's in the last few 0.99.8 releases, and being used by some kernel maintainers which are dealing with a directory reorg, but still merging patches from Linus' tree. cheers, martin
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