More aggressive tracking of renaming/copying?

[Malcolm Matalka]

František Kučera <konference at frantovo.cz> writes:

> Could you try hg mv or hg cp and compare results? Hg can detect that
> it is a rename/move during hg addremove, but usually do it explicitly
> using these commands (there is also --after option). IDEs like
> Netbeans do this automatically if you refactor classes.

In my case I'm dealing with a git repository so I don't really have
control over how the rename/copy happened.

>
> BTW: hg cp is a great thing, because if I want to split a file into two, I copy it and then delete some lines from each file – then I have full history in both of them, nothing lost.
>
> Franta
>
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