Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Setting tree revision for imported sources

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:29:13AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The way file moves are discovered by comparing the file list "before" and
> "after": files present in both are easy.  All the files only present in
> "after" are checked for "similarity" with all the files only present in
> "before" to discover file moves, the rest is either added or deleted.
> It works suprisingly well.

That's exactly what `tla-update-ids' does, incidentally...

So it looks like `mcvs grab' could be done in a 4 line shell script.
Hmmm...

-Miles
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