Comment 1 for bug 269095
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| Guenther Brunthaler (gb-about-gnu) wrote | #1 |
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Strictly speaking, this is an enhancement request, not a bug report.
However, it might also be considered a "documentation bug" or "advertisement bug", because in the manual bzr is advertised as being a replacement for svn or hg which "preserves as many metadata as possible, and more than most other SCMs" during the migration.
As long as there is no "bzr cp" (or a suitable work-around for emulating such a command using other bzr commands), this is simply not true, as its closest competitors all provide this feature, and only bzr does not.
As this seems to be the *ONLY* real shortcoming of bzr compared to hg or svn, it might be be worth being addressed before adding any additional new features are introduced to bzr. (Bug fixing should still have a higher importance, of course.)