Proper way to break apart a file with Mercurial/general version control?

Question

I currently have a source file with two classes in it. I'd like to move one of them into a separate file. Is there any way to do this in a way similar to "hg mv" where Mercurial realizes the relationship between the new file and the part of the old file? Or does it have to look to Mercurial like a big chunk of one file was deleted and a brand new file was created? Is there some other best-practice I should be following here?

I will be very impressed if this kind of tracking actually exists, but it wouldn't be the first time Mercurial has pleasantly surprised me.

The upvoted answer (not the accepted one) might help a bit. – Joel B Fant Jul 15 '11 at 17:17 — Joel B Fant, Jul 15 '11 at 17:17
Yep, that answers my question. Thank you! – mcstrother Jul 15 '11 at 21:23 — mcstrother, Jul 15 '11 at 21:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '11 at 05:55

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You may do it via copy (hg copy) command. Just create a copy, change each copy and commit.

answered Jul 18 '11 at 05:55

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Upvote and accept for brevity :) And, of course, for being the correct answer in many ways: while it's clear from the other question that there is no real official way to do this, and it perfectly address merging, it's a heck of a lot better than creating a new file and copying and pasting, especially for functions like `hg blame`. – mcstrother Jul 19 '11 at 04:20

Proper way to break apart a file with Mercurial/general version control?

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