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On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:15:41PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> The automatic vs. explicit movement tracking is a lot more
> controversial. Explicit movement tracking is pretty easy to provide for
> file-level movements, it's just that the user says "I _did_ move file
> A to file B" (I never got the Linus' argument that the user has no idea
> - he just _performed_ the move, also explicitly, by calling *mv).

In one of my projects 99% or the renames are "done" when unzipping the
source release of the next version.  Explicit tracking would be
unbearable, frankly.

And once you have a good enough implicit tracking, why bother with an
explicit one?

  OG.