On Sep 5, 2005, at 1:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark D. Baushke wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
we are using cvs for already 5 years in a 3500 files/500 folders
project (php) and time comes for rearranging file structure a bit.
Yup, that time comes to most projects eventually.
I wonder how other projects using cvs solve this?
There are a number of methods listed in the CVS manual. The ones
discussed most often in this forum are to export/rearrange/import into
a new module, do remove/add/commit sequences with suitable comments,
and copy RCS files in the repository. I have personally had some
success creating new directory structures in the repository and then
hard-linking the RCS files into the new structure. But all of the
methods described have serious drawbacks.
Hmmm... I am not aware of anything particular on the roadmap for
supporting file structure reorganzation, but if you have suggestions
or
code to contribute, we can discuss it on the [email protected]
mailing
list (or [email protected] if you have patches to be considered).
We are php people. I am afraid we can't contribute in C.
Is it possible the repository to be touched carefully for
file/directory renaming purpose? I read somewhere that the human
readable form of the cvs repository is an advantage over subversion.
What will happen if we simply rearrange the repository (the folders
and ,v files there) and checkout again?
You can, but if you do the reorg in-place then you lose the ability to
recover old configurations in the proper shape. If you copy the RCS
files in a new directory structure with the new shape, then you double
the size of your repository and retrain the users. There are also
hidden costs with respect to having the users repopulate their
workspace, debugging problems when they don't, and having your existing
baselines go out of date.
--
Paul Sander | "When a true genius appears in the world, you may
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| confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift,
writer.
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