Thoughts on moving from CVS to another VCS [was: make dist]

[Julian Foad]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> I hesitate to mention this because I am not trying to open Pandora's
> box but post CVS version control systems almost all preserve history
> across file renames.  I have not heard any mention and don't want to
> stir up trouble but if there is any inclination to move off of CVS at
> any point in the future then renames after that time would preserve
> the full history.  That would be a good argument for keeping the
> current names until that time and doing any scheduled renames in the
> new system.

Stepan Kasal is (at least was) keen, and I am keen, to switch to Subversion 
after we have got a large number of the long-standing bugs fixed and released.

- Julian