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Some source material (e.g. Subversion dump files) perform directory renames by telling us the directory was copied, then deleted in the same revision. This makes it difficult for a frontend to convert such data formats to a fast-import stream, as all the frontend has on hand is "Copy a/ to b/; Delete a/" with no details about what files are in a/, unless the frontend also kept track of all files. The new 'C' subcommand within a commit allows the frontend to make a recursive copy of one path to another path within the branch, without needing to keep track of the individual file paths. The metadata copy is performed in memory efficiently, but is implemented as a copy-immediately operation, rather than copy-on-write. With this new 'C' subcommand frontends could obviously implement an 'R' (rename) on their own as a combination of 'C' and 'D' (delete), but since we have already offered up 'R' in the past and it is a trivial thing to keep implemented I'm not going to deprecate it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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