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Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103740: Remove some files that a


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103740: Remove some files that autoreconf can supply.
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:27:03 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> The above is bad.  Never ever do "add+remove" instead of "bzr mv".
>[snip]
>
> I understand this point, but these are "generated" (sort of...) files.
> The history is not important.
[snip]

Apart from preserving history, there is another reason for using `bzr
mv' instead of plain `mv': the latter requires storing again the file
contents into the database, while the former represents the operation in
a very efficient way, which saves storage and network traffic.



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