Re: RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:10:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> 
> > If we're willing to get a little underhanded, we can do the shuffling in
> > the repository directory structure itself, i.e., cp/mv the foo,v files
> > directly.
> 
> The huge problem with mv is that you break all your old tags and branches
> that don't pick up the required changes to the Makefiles as well, so you
> can no longer check out old versions.
> 
> cp avoids this, but has a different problem of giving you both the old and
> the new locations when you check out an old version.  What you have to do
> is cp the ,v files and then remove all the old tags from the new ,v files,
> and then cvs remove all of the old files from the mainline.  It's messy,
> ugly work with RCS file internals.

In fact, I believe that latter method is how many projects do it.

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