Comment 8 for bug 269095

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Per Johansson (per.j) wrote :

copy is not all about preserving history, even if it is the most important function. Consider I do a copy from A to B, and my parent branch changes A. Then the changes should be applied to both A and B (or only B if I've removed A, which is likely).

Mercurial has describes some more cases:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CopyMergeCases