[svlug] Preventing a Revision Control Flamewar

[Bill Ward]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting N.J. Thomas (thomas at zaph.org):
>
> > As someone else in this thread pointed out, svn does file renames while
> > preserving history just fine -- and this has always been the case (i.e.
> > there has never been a time when "svn mv" did not preserve revision
> > history).
>
> The point -- as very clearly stated -- was not that there's anything
> wrong with "svn mv", but rather that _rename_ loses history.


What's the difference between mv and rename?  Isn't a rename just a mv
within the same directory?
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