Re: renaming under CVS

[Paul Sander]

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>[ On Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:46:05 (-0800), Noel Yap wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: renaming under CVS
>>
>> I'm starting to think about a scheme where CVS would
>> go through a filename mapping if the usual archive
>> file isn't found (I think this is how Meta-CVS works).
>>  The mapped archive file would only exist if there's
>> been a rename or move.  I don't think such a scheme
>> would _fundamentally_ break backwards compatibility.

>If an old version of CVS cannot recover a release, or indeed if plain
>RCS commands on the RCS files cannot revcover a release, then you've
>broken backwards compatability.  If you want to rename things in that
>way then you'll have to do it post checkout/update/export.

Back-revving CVS in this manner isn't usually a concern.  Owners of
repositories can specify the minimum rev level of the client to use.
I would never dream of successfully using CVS v1.3 to access a
repository that's been maintained by CVS v1.10 or newer for any length
of time, and I don't believe anyone expects this arrange to work even
if local mode were permitted.

Breaking compatibility so that new versions of CVS become incompatible
with old repositories is of much greater concern, and rightfully so.

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