On 12/04/2012 05:22 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/11/2012 6:37, Invisible wrote:
>> OTOH, if you do this with Darcs, you keep the file history, since Darcs
>> tracks individual files, not entire repositories.
>
> Git deduces this, which is the right way to do it, methinks. Darcs can't
> *really* tell if this file came from that file. It can only record what
> you told it.

I have repository A, which contains file X. I have repository B, which 
does not contain file X. I pull all the changes relating to file X from 
repository A into repository B. Now B contains X, and all its history.

If I do this with Git branches, then on branch B, a file named X 
suddenly shows up, but there's no record that it was actually copied 
from branch A. It just records what's /in/ the file.

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