Removal of the old build system, partial and preliminary review (part 3)

[Mario Torre]

You can probably use hg mv -A too, then webrev should pick it up whatever
mercurial prepared in the change set.

Cheers,
Mario
Il 04/nov/2013 18:46 "Phil Race" <philip.race at oracle.com> ha scritto:

> I had this problem recently and I don't think you need restore the files -
> just the directory.
> I used hg mv to relocate the files but because *all* files were moved out
> of the directory  so hg deleted the directory. It was sufficient to
> mkdir <the-old-dir> again for webrev to properly recognise the files as
> moved.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 11/4/2013 9:27 AM, David DeHaven wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, WebRev is not very intelligent at presenting these
>>> changes. :-( I have made modifications to files that I have also moved, but
>>> WebRev just lists these files as "New" without any reference or diff with
>>> the original file. I don't know if if is possible to get an improved
>>> behaviour. I'm using the -f flag, on a repo that is cloned locally from the
>>> one I based the previous review on.
>>>
>> Is it complaining that it can't find the old versions? In those cases if
>> you temporarily restore the old file then webrev should be able to show a
>> diff of the content changes too, as long as the old version doesn't become
>> re-managed. You could use rsync to restore the old files from a pristine
>> clone, then hg purge to nuke when done.
>>
>> -DrD-
>>
>>
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