Comparison with Git, Mercurial or Darcs?

[David Cournapeau]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> My *understanding* of git is that renames are not considered especially 
> interesting and are never recorded explicitly.  However, various cases of 
> renaming can be detected with git commands, when you review the history.  I 
> remember Linus posting stuff on this (including his personal argument that 
> renames aren't that interesting to record - but obviously not everyone 
> agrees!) a while back.  I might be out of date on the specifics but I'd be 
> pretty surprised if git had started recording renames in the metadata (as 
> opposed to just an add + delete).
>   

No, it does not record rename, and it has no file id. Given git
philosophy, I doubt this will ever change,

cheers,

David