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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by 4ad on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:16PM (#11669780)
What happens when you duplicate a file? Does it track history back to the original parent? Can it help with future merges?
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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by luckydude on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:47PM (#11670053)
You mean copy the file? There is a bk cp command that copies the file and gives it a new rootkey. But from that point on the history of the two files diverge.
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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by 4ad on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:09PM (#11670240)
Yeah, copy. I see, thanks.
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