[svlug] Preventing a Revision Control Flamewar

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Rick Moen wrote:

> The method to implement "svn move" used to be broken as I described, denials
> notwithstanding.  It looks as if this mid-2007 mostly patched the breakage
> that two posters to this mailing list recently denied ever having existed:
> http://www.orcaware.com/pipermail/svnmerge/2007-May/000913.html

Wow, Rick.  Nice putting words in our mouths.  You go ahead and keep 
making stuff up if you want.

Bottom line: if you want to rename a file in svn, and maintain the 
history of the file both before and after the rename such that 'svn log 
$newfilename' will give you the full history, it will work just fine. 
I'm not sure when this turned into an irrelevant "but the design sucks 
so it's not a real rename" argument, but IMO all Rick is doing is 
obscuring the pragmatic truth that renames work just fine.

That's it; I'm done.

	-brian