Handling renames: svn vs. git vs. mercurial

by
  • Git doesn’t track renames at all, but uses heuristic to re-discover them during merge etc.
  • Mercurial tracks renames (the origin version and origin file is recorded) and uses that information during merges. So you have to explicitly tell hg about renames with hg mv, or use hg addremove --similarity for auto-discovery. There has been some talk about adding heuristics during merge too.
  • Svn tracks renames, but I don’t know how good it deals with them during merges (never actually tested that).

More Related Contents:

  1. How and/or why is merging in Git better than in SVN?
  2. Why is branching and merging easier in Mercurial than in Subversion?
  3. What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar? [closed]
  4. Can we finally move to DVCS in Corporate Software? Is SVN still a ‘must have’ for development? [closed]
  5. What makes merging in DVCS easy?
  6. What makes some version control systems better at merging?
  7. How do I migrate an SVN repository with history to a new Git repository?
  8. Describe your workflow of using version control (VCS or DVCS) [closed]
  9. How does Git solve the merging problem? [closed]
  10. Why should I use version control? [closed]
  11. How do you deal with configuration files in source control?
  12. To put the prefix ? to codes by Git/SVN
  13. Dealing with SVN keyword expansion with git-svn
  14. Distributed Version Control Systems and the Enterprise – a Good mix? [closed]
  15. How do I ignore a directory with SVN?
  16. Why is Git better than Subversion?
  17. Git and Mercurial – Compare and Contrast
  18. Checkout one file from Subversion
  19. Merging: Hg/Git vs. SVN
  20. SVN:externals equivalent in Git?
  21. What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git?
  22. How do you organize your version control repository?
  23. Structure of Projects in Version Control
  24. Best general SVN Ignore Pattern?
  25. How to version control config files pragmatically?
  26. How to attribute a single commit to multiple developers?
  27. Getting started with Version Control System
  28. Diffing between two entire directories/projects in hg or git?
  29. Should I store all projects in one repository or multiple?
  30. How to synchronize two Subversion repositories?

Leave a Comment