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When renaming files in the Explorer or performing cut/paste operations, there should be a support of propagating these actions into VCS. Problems associated with this issue are described in issue #10145 on which this issue depends.
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I wish this issue would be revived. Its quite old, and back when it was reported CVS was probably the only VCS most of us were using, so this issue would not be a priority, since CVS lacks any meaningful rename functionality. Now, though, we have Subversion, not to mention many more VCS profiles, and these mostly DO have a meaningful file rename function. In addition we have very cool refactoring capability the renames files at the drop of a hat, but leaves the VCS f^H confused. No more can we really view this issue as a RFE, but as a BUG. In the initial modelling stages of a project, plenty of object renaming goes on, and, whilst it is very nice to simply hit "Refactor->rename" this leave the VCS in a state of disarray. The only workaround is to run the refactoring, manually rename the file back to its old name (or exclude the file rename from the refactoring), and then manually run the VCS rename. Very tedious and error-prone. Consider this a plea for raising the priority of the issue.
I am also interested in raising attention to this issue. Having read up on the various other related bug reports, my impression is that not all VCS options support renaming (such as CVS) , which would make having a Refactor -> Rename result in a VCS rename difficult. Would it be possible to work from the other direction, that is add menu option of the form Subversion -> Rename which would then also provide the option of performing a refactor?
> Would it be possible to work from the other direction, that is add menu option of the form Subversion -> Rename which would then also provide the option of performing a refactor? I do not understand, why do you need that? What would be the difference between this Subversion -> Rename and common Refactor -> Rename? All Refactor -> Rename operations are mapped to corresponding svn move commands