Jigsaw/JDK requirements
Mark Reinhold
mr at sun.com
Fri Feb 20 15:14:24 PST 2009
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:00:18 -0800
> From: jonathan.gibbons at sun.com
> While Mercurial can handle mass renames, it does it in a clumsy way
> (doesn't it?) as a combination of a delete and a new file. Although
> it doesn't cost you in the working directory, it will cost you in the
> .hg directory, won't it?
No, not really. The deltas for the original file remain where they
were in .hg/store; the new file in the store will only contain newer
deltas. The -f option to the hg log command follows across renames
so that you can always see the complete history of a file.
- Mark
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