Re: Major cvs surgery, need suggestions

[Steve Greenland]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:19:41AM +0000, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>       As I move *.c to src/*.c, how do I preserve the history of each file as
> it's moved? If I simply do:

Noooooooo! (A cry of anguish is heard....you just missed a multiday
round of arguments, flames, and general bad behaviour (self included) on
this very topic).

>       foo.c in the top level is 1.46, but when moved and added, it gets
> version 1.1 (logically). How do I preserve the history of the changes made
> to this file to date, so I can do a 'cvs log' on it and get the full
> changes?

You can't. The best you can do is

mv foo.c src/foo.c
cvs add src/foo.c
cvs rm foo.c
cvs ci -m"Moved foo.c to src/foo.c" foo.c src/foo.c

Then, when log src/foo.c, you'll see how to backtrack to previous
versions.

One can also play games with moving/copying files in the repository, but
that leads to problems when checking out older versions, and files with
tags they should have. The above is the best current practice for being
able to correctly reproduce old versions.

Steve


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