[darcs-users] [planet darcs] Automatic detection of file renames for Darcs

[AntC]

I see that José Neder is doing some work to use inode ...

Hi José,
are inode and Windows' File Index number guaranteed persistent through 
renames/directory moves and edits of the file?

It seems an easy way to keep track of files. Do other VCS's use it? Is 
there some reason darcs hasn't used it before?

inode sounds like in the 'Principled Approach to Version Control' paper: 
unique identifiers internal to the repo.
If DARCS could prefix inode with a unique repo identifier, that would give 
a GUID for every file wherever it gets pulled(?)