RE: The best approach for moving files and retaining history
"Arthur Barrett" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Todd, > what is the behavior of the CVSNT rename command? From the command line POV it just 'works' so I imagine that cvs2cl will just show files added/removed (since it wouldn't be looking for 'rename'). Behind the scenes it creates a fileattr.xml with the new name and the branch(es)/revision/date that it applies to. Moving across directories is more difficult, but I personally don't recommend it (most examples of renaming I've seen it's just changing a class from one name to another). Interestingly SVN doesn't have rename either - there is a 'rename' command for svn.exe but it just issues a ''copy'' then ''delete'' over the protocol - the ''copy'' creates a reference to the old revision that it was copied from... From a pedantic technical POV therefore CVSNT and EVS have 'rename' and SVN doesn't ;) Regards, Arthur