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.

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