Comparison with Git, Mercurial or Darcs?

[Daniel Carrera]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Mark Williamson <maw48 at cantab.net> wrote:
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>> One correction from your list: Darcs does support renames properly. I
>> was surprised when I learned that Git and Mercurial have to do a
>> delete+add behind the scenes... Ugh...
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> FWIW, Mercurial does record renames, whereas git does not record them at all.

Thanks, I didn't know that about Git.

Just to make sure I understand you about Mercurial: The Bazaar website
says that when you ask Mercurial to rename, behind the scenes what it
really does is a delete+add. Is this correct? In other words, Bazaar
and Darcs are special in that they actually record a rename as a
rename.

Thanks.
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