[TxMt] Re: how to change name of tmLanguage file

[Allan Odgaard]

On 12 Feb 2014, at 12:34, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> […] Therefore I am having those version control issues _now_. Well, 
> it would have been better to give me those issues before I had 
> actually written any of the grammar

The issue I refer to is that it is not at all uncommon that we rename 
bundle items. If we do that, and TextMate changes names on disk, we have 
to manually tell the VCS about the rename, and the history of the item 
gets harder to extract. This is why we decided to newer let TM rename 
files on disk.

Most users do not care about the names on disk (they are not visible), 
bundle authors (using VC) would be bothered if TM would rename files on 
disk. Yes, you have to do some extra work before publishing a bundle, 
but even if TM had given you perfect names, you would still have to dig 
into the bundle to initialize the repository…

> […] there would have been _no problem at all_ if TextMate had just 
> behaved in a sensible way

The problem is that we cannot know, unless TextMate has code for all 
potential version control systems in existance now and the future.