Re: BRANCH LABEL FOR DIRECTORIES

[Derek R. Price]

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:

> Ah, but in this case I can.  Everything I've described about tracking
> the renaming/moving of files using "cvs rm" and "cvs add" with magically
> meaningful comment strings can be easily automated by a front-end.  No
> change is necessary in CVS itself to achieve this functionality,
> therefore it is provably not a necessary feature of the basic CVS
> functionality.

I agree, although I might argue that if you were the person who were going to 
add
this functionality, the most efficient place to add it would be on the CVS 
server
since it shouldn't require any client support and adding the functionality to 
the
server should make the feature immediately available to most clients on most
platforms.  Besides, storing metadata in log messages is rather messy.

Of course a wrapper implementation could make the feature available on a server
that didn't otherwise support it, but I'd consider that mostly moot since most 
of
the other features and bug fixes that make it into new CVS releases can usually
justify upgrading.

Derek

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