28 May
2003
28 May
'03
8:08 a.m.
Simon Marlow writes:
We could just rearrange the repository in place, and everything would still work, right?
It's not quite that easy, unfortunately. If you want to retain the files's version history (and I guess you would), then you have to move the directories around in the CVS repository's file system _directly_, because CVS has no notion of "moving" entries -- let alone directories.
Yes, I'm aware of that - I'm no stranger to direct repository surgery ;-)
As a result, users who have a checked-out copy of the repository, will not be able to commit their changes (or update their copy) anymore, because the paths stored in their "CVS/Repository" files became incorrect.
Good point. Cheers, Simon