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. 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. Either, one provides a short shell script to fix this (no big deal), or the repository has to be checked-out from the scratch, before it can be used again. But that's more of a nuisance than a real problem. Peter P. S.: In your quote my '»' and '«' characters were messed up, so I'll be using normal quotes from now on, assuming that the guillemots cause problems on non-Latin-1 systems.