Lightweight copy

Daniel Holth dholth at fastmail.fm
Sat May 5 23:57:16 UTC 2007


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Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what happens when a file (or directory) is copied in Mercurial?
>
> Will this be a lightweight copy like in Subversion, or a full blown
> copy which means that anything, i.e. the complete history etc. is
> copied physically?
>
> Regards
>
> Guido _______________________________________________ Mercurial
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The most recent revision of the file or all the files in the directory
is copied, and it remembers where each file was copied from so that it
can merge changes across file renames.
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