Re: CVS history for moved include files

"K. Vogel" <kvo--gm-eDJ9Xp5/[email protected]> Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:04:13 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xlibs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
>> cd /home/cvs/xlibs/Xmu/
>> mv \
> 
> That's what I did with Xlib; what cvs add gives you is the ability to go 
> back to the old build system easily, but drops the history.  I thought the 
> per-file history more important than the ability to recover the imake 
> build system, so I moved the ,v files instead.   CVS sucks.

A bit off topic, but...

Has subversion been considered yet?! It has atomic commits and can move
files within a repository. It's still rather new, but some projects are
already trusting their sources with it. 

e.g. 
 http://www.linux1394.org/svn.html 
 http://svn.debian.org



References:
	http://subversion.tigris.org/

cvs2svn
	http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/apbs02.html