Tinny Ng wrote:
>
> I agree to. As a developer, sometimes I need to trace the revision history and
> try to understand why a certain change was in in place. Since this is an Open
> Source Project, it may be hard to find the original developer and inquire his
> rationale behind, so the revision history is very important (at least to me.)
>
> So if we cannot keep the revision history after the rename, then I would vote -1
> for this proposal.
Hopefully we can keep it somewhere, even if we have to do a separate
query for older changes. That's not perfect, or integrated, I know. By
the way, I don't pretend to know much about CVS apart from knowing that
it's directory-renaming problems have a habit of preventing code from
being properly refactored. I tend to be a bit reckless about that just
because I see cvs as a tyrant to which we shouldn't surrender.
>
> Tinny
>
> "Peter A. Volchek" wrote:
>
> > > One comment: as a paranoid version-control freak, I'd strongly discourage
> > > renaming repository directories. It's bad policy, and can make it
> > difficult
> > > or impossible to reconstruct a prior release. Such reconstructions are one
> > > of the primary motivations for having version control in the first place.
> > > The clean thing to do is what Arnaud characterized as the "official" way:
> > > check out the tip from the existing locations, then check in to the new
> > > location. If it's deemed important to keep all the revision history
> > intact,
> > > I'd advocate cloning the repositories (which obviously has its own
> > > problems). Renaming the existing repository directories should be avoided
> > if
> > > at all possible.
> > >
> >
> > Agree.
> > This is the only reason why I vote -1
> >
> > Peter A. Volchek
> > Software Engineer
> > Metis International, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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