Re: "cvs move" command

[J]

I see the difficulty with that. But how about if you wanted to move a file
to somewhere else on the same branch? Can this be done directly in the
reposity by moving the directory? Is that not a good idea either?

"Pierre Asselin" <pa@panix.com> wrote in message
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> In <mailman.47.1041996457.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org> Stewart Heitmann
<S.Heitmann@lake.com.au> writes:
>
> >I would love the CVS development team
> >to develop a "cvs move" command to
> >replace the clunky "cvs remove" + "cvs add".
>
> >[ ... ]
>
> >I suggest a "cvs move [srcfile] [destfile]"
> >command that copies the repository srcfile,v
> >file to destfile,v in the repository (thus
> >the new file retains its revision history).
> >Then it does a cvs remove on the original
> >srcfile so it can be reinstated later if needed.
>
> It also needs to remove all tags from destfile,v .  Except if this
> is happening on a branch, in which case destfile,v should still
> have the tag for that one branch.  Does the copy happen immediately,
> or is it just scheduled to happen on the next commit, like add and
> remove? Is there an extension to the client-server protocol?  Is
> the new protocol backward-compatible?  Do new clients interoperate
> cleanly with old servers?
>
>
> >Its very simple and I cant think of any reason
> >it wouldnt work.
>
> It's very simple except when you look at the details.  If my list
> above is complete it may indeed not be too bad, but did I leave
> anything out?
>
> I'm such a grouch.  On a more constructive note, maybe meta-cvs can do
> the job.  I haven't tried it yet, but that's the kind of limitation it
> tries to address.  Kaz gives these url's:
>
>     http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcvs
>     http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html
>