Jigsaw/JDK requirements

[Mark Reinhold]

> 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