[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 01:59:20 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: rename in cvs]
>
> And not only do you lose the ability to get a file's entire version
> history with a single "cvs log",
That is not a loss -- it is a gain. You have it backwards.
> you also have added to a file's revision
> history all of the unwanted stuff from a previous incarnation that was
> renamed away.
Well, yes, that's a bit of a bug, but we've discussed the obvious and
very easy solution several times in the past
> Defending the ambiguity of the histories of logically different files that
> happen to share a path at one time or another, and the fragmentation of
> a file's entire version history is nonsensical.
Since you've never really understood how CVS manages change and how
filenames are used within CVS, this strange is not unsurprising.
--
Greg A. Woods
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