Re: My plans for VC mode

[Eric S. Raymond]

Steinar Bang <address@hidden>:
> Well, whether there will be a rewrite or not, here's a bug I would very
> much like to see fixed: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8756
> 
> Ie. make vc-git.el's 'C-x v l' track history across renames (and make
> stuff like annotate and diff from hashes work past renames).

That would be *quite* hard, and is out of scope of my plans.  The
extent to which VCSes make it even possible to track across renames
varies a lot; the mechanisms for it, where they exist, are complex and
tend to be flaky.

Even if we restrict attention to git, log --follow only works on
single files...
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>