This one time, at band camp, Del wrote: >>In addition, cvs does not do renames nicely nor does it allow files >>to be easily moved from one directory to another. Its not uncommon >>for me to rename files so that their fine name more closely matches >>its content. I also put new files in a miscellaneous directory and >>move them later to a directory of other files with the same subject >>matter. > >CVS doesn't do renames not does it track file moves. It keeps the same >file name in the same place. If you "move" a file you actually track >that in CVS by saying it was deleted in one place and added in another. >So it is still possible to move a file, but you leave a record of the >file in its original place as well as a creation date in the new place. > >In certain environments that's important to know, for example in most >MIL-STD-973 (and later EIA 836) environments it's important to have it >done the CVS way. I can't configure subversion to handle file moves >the way that CVS does, so I have to use CVS for that.
I think this thread is already way off topic, but WTF? Please can you clarify what you mean, that subversion can't do this? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
