>[snip] >> Subversion is still an observer and whatever a user does, he must tell >> Subversion what he did in cases where subversion can't >> understand it by >> itself (i.e. file/folder rename/move that preserve history across the >> revisions). Every VCS I know works like this. Maybe one invents a VCS > >Sort of. Mercurial is perfectly happy if you tell it afterwards (before a >commit of course) that you renamed that file and deleted the other one. >This behavior comes in handy, if you have to rename some files in the IDE, >because only the IDE knows what (and in which file) has to be renamed...
It smells differently, but is basically the same. :-) But now I understand what Stefan Sperling wanted to point out.
