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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP*
To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:09:14 -0700 (MST)
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> > Physically rearrange the CVS repository to move them and their history
> > to the new location (sed script time) so that they aren't largely
> > duplicated, is what I meant.
> 
> You can't do that, because it destroys the ability to checkout a version
> of the sources from before the move -- which, after all, is the
> whole point of CVS.

You can too; it just checks out to a different place.  If the build
environment is sufficiently modular, that won't matter.  It probably
isn't, though.


> If you really don't want any of the history, then I'd suggest not
> fetching the repository.  Just use CVSup in checkout mode with
> "tag=." and keep yourself up-to-date with -current.

I do want the history.  I  don't want the duplicate code.

CVS needs repository "symlinks".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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