On the fly rename inference

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Several imports do not come with rename information since the source vcs doesn't support proper renames. It would be nice if Bazaar could do on-the-fly rename inference in those cases, like e.g. git does.

[Sabin Iacob (iacobs)]

possibly related: any idea on how I get an "/some/path is already versioned" error when branching? the respective revision contains a directory move and some changes to a file beneath it; lightweight checkouts (which, AFAICS, are regular svn checkouts) with bzr and svn work, branching fails;

branching, commit and push made with 0.4 branch, r701; branch corrupted due to computer lockup (intel video drivers go for a hard lockup, xfs filesystem loses data, no way to rebuild the damn repository), had to branch again from SVN, failed on revision 32 of 34; branching r31 works, however I can't merge afterwards, so it doesn't really help; tested with the tip of 0.4 (r724), still getting the said error

[Sabin Iacob (iacobs)]

er, I meant how do i get _over_ the said error :-/

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This is completely unrelated, please open a separate bug for it.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This sort of functionality should probably be shared between the bzr-hg, bzr-git and bzr-svn plugins.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Proper renames are supported these days - renames from Bazaar can be roundtripped into svn and back.

Subversion doesn't support renames but Bazaar could do on the fly rename inference like e.g. git does.

This would come in handy for other foreign imports such as Git and Hg as well.