File copy-tracking.

[Gerard Murphy]

I'm evaluating Plastic SCM at the moment; I'm a novice user.

I use a mixture of Mercurial / Git and SVN right now both commercially and for open source work.

Both Mercurial and SVN have the notion of tracking copies of files, in addition to the more well-known move tracking. I rarely use the copy-tracking feature, but occasionally it's a convenient way of making a commit that keeps track of a refactoring that splits a large file into several smaller ones. The idea is to make copies, edit them into smaller pieces, then remove the original. That way the history is preserved, and there is some possibility of merging uncommitted local work (or work on a local branch) on the original file with the incoming refactoring changes made by somebody else.

My question is, does Plastic support copy-tracking? If so, is this available via transparent SCM support? - I tried playing with this but could only see the rename / move detection.

[manu]

Hi Gerard!

Plastic doesn't have the file copy tracking.

It's an idea that has been flying around from time to time but we haven't had the opportunity to implement it, maybe you can add the idea into our user voice system and get a few votes to get it done: https://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/15467-general

Regards!

[JakubH]

I believe this idea has been added already: https://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/15467-general/suggestions/3140570-file-branching-to-allow-new-file-to-track-inheri

[manu]

Thanks!

[Gerard Murphy]

Thanks for your replies - I've voted and commented on this in the user voice site.

[manu]

Thanks you Gerald, it's a nice feature.