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Re: ext/ names (was: re:[PATCH] HP/SGI extensions to...)
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:08:30PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> > ... by the way: how do you rename files with CVS? ;-)
>
> With much pain:
>
> http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_7.html#SEC70
>
> Personally I'd like to just rename the raw ,v files in the repository,
> but the FSF policy seems to require doing a 'cvs remove' of the old one
> and a 'cvs add' of the new one (losing the history).
Off topic, but...
I often _copy_ the ,v file in the repository and then 'cvs remove' the
old one with a comment to the effect of "Renamed to xxx". This is
"safe" and maintains the file's history. You can always commit a null
change to the new file to comment on the renaming there as well.
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