[Techtalk] CVS - preserving history of renamed files.

[Cynthia Kiser]

Yes I have renamed files with CVS by copying the ,v file within the
repository and then doing cvs remove of the original. Most of the time
when I have to rearrange files in that way, I don't often want to
checkout or revert to older versions of the whole repository, so I
have not encountered difficulties with the warned of behavior. And it
is quite worth it to retain the history of file revisions.  I usually
comment about the move in my cvs remove and cvs checkin. (I always
have a checkin of the new file because my files generally start with a
comment that contains the full file path and name.)

Quoting Becky L. Norum <bnorum at coe.neu.edu>:
> Just wondering whether there are any best practices for preserving history
> of files you rename or move within a repository so that you can, for
> example, revert to a previous version from before the rename or move.
> 
> the CVS FAQ has one solution:
> http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom//cache/140.html
> (see last comment)
> 
> Has anyone tried this and had relatively good luck?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> becky
> 
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Cynthia N. Kiser
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