Re: [boost] Changing the arrangement of files within our SCM

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-23 21:32:56

> > This plan will work better with Subversion, since that SCM system records
> > file _and_ directory moves.
>
> Not strictly true. It keeps track of deletes and adds. The moves/renames
> are implemented in terms of those which means that getting the history
> of files in place is not possible. (Last I checked)
>
In subversion, moves are a copy, followed by the deletion of the
original; the copy is history-preserving.