Comment 20 for bug 269095

I'm currently using Mercurial, but just found out that it doesn't track empty directories, so I thought about maybe switching to Bazaar. I was pleased to see that Bzr tracks directories properly, including empty directories, but was disappointed it doesn't support tracking file copies.

So, I can either use Mercurial which tracks file copies properly and has a workaround/hack for tracking empty directories (ie. put empty file in it), or use Bazaar which solves the directory tracking problem, but doesn't support file copying (and there doesn't appear to be a workaround/hack for this).

At the moment, it seems that no DVCS fully supports all required/useful features, so I'm sure that adding proper support for tracking file copies to Bzr would help to improve Bzr's popularity.

This was originally requested over 2.5 years ago, and it was interesting to see that it was finally assigned to someone, Tomasz Magulski, in Feb 2011.

How's progress going for this feature, and will we see it in a release in the near future ?