On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:14:06AM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote: > > Penned by Daniel Stone on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +1000, we have: > > [..] > > | I did suggest this (mv hp,v hp.old,v). > > > > If you guys care about history at all, aka the ability to checkout files > > in the past, you would not suggest nor impement this suggestion. > > If anyone cared about it, they wouldn't still be using CVS, probably. :P
it's not a problem unique to CVS. > Yes, but what's the alternate solution? I really don't like the changed-case > solution, as that sets a precedent of sorts. A note should be made somewhere of > the moved files. one alternative is to copy the ,v file to the new name (if all you're concerned about is finding the "real" history for a particular file). But simply renaming the file is a bad practice - bites everyone else, whether or not it affects the person who moved the file. -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
