Splitting a file into two new files cannot be handled by bzr mv

[Jo Vermeulen]

What used to be one class in the original revision, is now split up into two classes. Some methods that do generic computations are kept in the existing file, while the others have been moved to another class. I have also renamed the original file.

Now, what I would like to do is relate both files (the renamed and edited original one, and the new one) to the original file. However, this does not seem possible with bzr mv. I think Git is able to do this.

Is there any way to realize this with Bazaar?

[Wesley J. Landaker (wjl)]

I too miss this feature. It seems pretty fundamental to be able to track history across copies as well as moves.

For example, Subversion can track history across copies with 'svn cp'. I haven't found a way to do this yet with Bazaar, which for me is a disappointing regression as I move projects from SVN to Bazaar (especially given the essay about lossless VCS tools here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/125).

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 22:37 +0000, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> I too miss this feature. It seems pretty fundamental to be able to track
> history across copies as well as moves.
>
> For example, Subversion can track history across copies with 'svn cp'. I
> haven't found a way to do this yet with Bazaar, which for me is a
> disappointing regression as I move projects from SVN to Bazaar
> (especially given the essay about lossless VCS tools here:
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/125).

Right; we are actually planning on closely planning this feature in our
upcoming sprint in March.

-Rob

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[Jo Vermeulen (jozilla)]

That's great news!

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Was this ever discussed? I missed the rest of the week, but I can't find anything on the brainstorms wiki page either.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

This needs someone to work on it, the concepts have been discussed here: http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFileCopies and on the mailing list.