Re: changing a RCS control file's name

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:54:37 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.rcs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/12/11 14:00, Robert Threet wrote:
> I thought I saw an command that would allow me to change the name of a file under RCS control without breaking the revision log.  Anyone now of such a command?

With RCS one simply renames the RCS file consistently
with renaming the source file, e.g.:

mv foo bar
mv RCS/foo,v RCS/bar,v

RCS doesn't keep track of filenames and renames itself;
that's up to you (or you can use a more-advanced version-control
system).