From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:13:55 GMT Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070201193647.GA18234@soma> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Eric Wong wrote: > > SVN uses "inode numbers" (I think they are just UUID's generated at "svn > > add" time, but I'm not sure) to track file ID's across renames. Some other > > SCM's do the same. > > I think you got this part confused with GNU Arch (and possibly > Bzr). SVN tracks renames in the changeset, it records (in the log) > a copy and delete. pathname@revision is the only "file ID" I know > about in SVN. Ahh, I was sure the revision files in FSFS were per-file, but coor me corrected - they seem to be per-revision. My bad. Linus