Renaming a package

[Denis Leroy]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:40 -0800, Denis Leroy wrote:
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>>Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>What is this recommended/nominal procedure to rename a package in FE's
>>>CVS?
>>>
>>>I could imagine 3 approaches:
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>>>1. I "cvs add" the "old-package" as "new-package", edit the files
>>>accordingly, then subsequently "cvs rm old-package".
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>>>
>>I would recommend this, since this is the regular CVS approach. It's
>>important that the new-package CVS commit message includes a pointer to
>>the old name ("moved from old-package"), so that one is able to follow
>>this link to consult the CVS history of the file if necessary. By
>>removing the old-package files, and always using the -P (prune empty
>>directories) with cvs update, the old empty directory will be removed
>>automatically by CVS during the update.
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>This way, you're loosing CVS history of the files being involved.
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No no you don't. You can rm a file, cvs remove it, and still acess its 
history with 'cvs log'. The history is merely split into 2 locations. 
That's why i was stressing that the log information should always 
mention the previous name and location.