Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
All we should be trying to do at this stage is get to a new VCS that
is no worse than CVS on the axes we care about. I can't see any
fundamental reason that we couldn't go back and add history later, if
that's compelling and someone wants to do it. The same goes for file
rename information: we're getting by without that now, and we can add
it in later if need be.
You could be right, but I don't see how. Once you've set the revision
numbers, can you really go back and insert earlier revision numbers?
Once you've created revisions in which files are not renamed, can you
really insert the file renames? I don't think that would be would
minor hacking; I think it would be major surgery on the revision
control data.