Re: Moving, removing, and renaming files in CVS

[Mike Castle]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:07:45PM -0500, Saima Iqbal wrote:
>          I wanted to know what repercussions there are to executing a unix 
> "mv"
> on a directory in a repository.   I just did a unix "rm" on a directory in a
> repository, not in a work space, because the directory name was conflicting 
> with
> another one.  Is there a reason why the CVS manuals don't mention this as an
> option?


It IS mentioned in the manual.  As one of the ways of renaming files.

Far as repercussions?

Well, let's say you have this to start with:

Makefile
foo.c
 
And Makefile refers to foo.c
 
You tag that as a release, and then you rename foo.c to bar.c on the
repository.
 
When you check out on that tag again, to to a bug fix, you get:
 
Makefile
bar.c
 
But Makefile still refers to foo.c
 
Granted, you're in there making bug fixes anyway, probably on a branch.  So
is this that big of a deal?  Probably not.
 
But if you've moved the file into a different subdirectory, well, perhaps
it's a bigger issue.

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