Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?

[Ralf Angeli]

* Miles Bader (2004-10-20) writes:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> And it should be simple enough to move the files around in the
>> Gnus CVS repository without losing any CVS history if I do it by hand
>> and is, er, careful.  I think.
>
> I think this is generally considered a very bad thing to do.  It's much safer
> (if less exciting) to just do the old cvs add+rm thing, and make the first
> commit log in the new location "renamed from foo".
>
> The reason it's bad, as I understand it, is that it essentially changes
> history; I'm not entirely sure of the all the user-visible repercussions, but
> I'm not sure I want to find out the hard way...

Why don't you just dump CVS and switch to a different version
management system which supports these kinds of operation?

When preview-latex will get integrated in AUCTeX we will probably have
to move and rename many files as well and it is a pity that we are
stuck with CVS due to Savannah not providing alternatives.

-- 
Ralf