Studio does not sync move operations from git repository

[jmendeza]

Duplicates

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Latest version

• [X] The issue is in the develop branch
• [X] The issue is in the latest released 4.1.x
• [ ] The issue is in the latest released 4.0.x
• [ ] The issue is in the latest released 3.1.x

Describe the issue

Sync-from-repo task does not recognize renames. It reports DELETE+ADD instead. This breaks traceability and affects publishing hard dependency calculations (e.g.: an edited previously published child of a renamed parent becomes a hard dependency)

Studio should interpret the diff correctly as a move and update the database so the final state of the site is the same as if the moved had been performed via API/UI.

Steps to reproduce

Steps:

1. Create a site based on editorial
2. Publish all
3. From a terminal, go to the site sandbox repository
4. Rename a folder. e.g.: go to /site/website/articles/2020 and rename folder 12 -> 12-test
5. Commit changes
6. Wait for Studio to sync
7. In Studio sidebar, navigate to Pages > Home > articles > 2020
8. Notice that now there is a 12-test folder. However, the article page inside it displays as new, instead of edited.

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[jmendeza]

This needs to consider:

• Rename score: minimal similarity between versions so a change is consider a rename vs ADD+DELETE (default is 60%)
• For 4.2 we need to update item_target table to keep the previous path
• Order of operation processing matter. e.g.: in the same commit we could move A -> B and B -> C

There are scenarios where publishing (particularly dependency calculation) might behave differently. However, enabling rename detection will not affect new publisher design.