On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Greg Stein wrote:

> (2) is flat out wrong: you need to "cvs rm" it so the "state" is correct
> within the file. It needs to be "dead" rather than just moved to the Attic.

Oops, yeah, what you said.  =-)

> And the technique is also prone to error. Even tho you remove the tags,
> checking out by date will create spurious files (i.e. the "new" file will
> appear in old checkouts).
>
> "cvs add" and "cvs rm" with a pointer in the new file to the old is the
> safest all around.

Whatever.  We've typically kept the history when we did this in the past,
but I don't much care.

--Cliff


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   Cliff Woolley
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