automv

Automatically detect moves and records them

1. Status

This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.

This extension is slated to be integrated into core Mercurial.

Author: Facebook, Inc.

Repository: https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental

Web page: https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental

2. Overview

This extension checks at commit/amend time if any of the committed files comes from an unrecorded mv.

3. Configuration

Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding following lines:

[extensions]
automv =

[automv]
# similaritythres = 0.75

The similaritythres parameter configures at what percentage of similarity a rename from one file to another is detected.

4. See also


CategoryExtensionsByOthers