Renaming in Git and Mercurial: Accuracy and automaticity

Question

I only have a few days of experience with Git and Mercurial, and I don\'t have much programming experiences.

In the past few days, I read many posts that comparing t

Answer 1

I don't think that Mercurial's ability to track file renames is nearly so perfect as you seem to think it might be. I don't have much experience with Git, but I do have a good bit with Mercurial, and renaming files seems to work OK in some contexts (hg view understands them), so long as you haven't done anything too "interesting" (which seems to happen somewhat frequently).

And Git, by reputation at least, is supposed to let you make low-level changes to history if you need to.