[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Ongoing Comparison Between Version Control Systems

[Miles Bader]

Shlomi Fish <address@hidden> writes:
> > For that matter, what semantic value is there for maintaining a "history"
> > of a clone of a file?  It's a new file with a new purpose.
> 
> For merging and for tracking changes to previous versions of the file?

Note that in arch there isn't any real concept of a file history log --
you have to construct one by examining the logs of changesets which
affected the file.

I have a script which does this, and it would probably be simple to have
it understand something like a `Copied-Files:'  header (added by the
user) in the changeset log, which would enable tracking file history
back past copy events, if that's a useful thing to do.

-Miles
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