Re: preserve cvs history of moved files.

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 07:27 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 21:45 +0300, Tsantilas Christos wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I read again my previous mail and looks a little stupid.
> >
> > I will try to help Alex with AsyncCalls project:
> > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/NativeAsyncCalls
> >
> > As first steps at the async-calls branch of sourceforge cvs, the files
> > src/ICAP/AsyncJob.c, src/ICAP/AsyncJob.h,src/ICAP/TextException.cc and
> > src/ICAP/TextException.h should moved under the src/ directory.
> > But also it is good to keep their cvs history.
> > Is there any way?
>
> Yes, copying the ,v file rather than moving; then use cvsadmin to mark
> the old versions at the new path deleted.
>
> And just cvs delete the current versions at the old path.
>
> Its important to do it this way rather than mv, because mv breaks the
> old versions.

These manipulations should be done in the primary CVS repository and not
on SourceForge, right? We probably do not even have shell access to SF
CVS files, do we?

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Sun Oct 14 2007 - 22:55:02 MDT