Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: abial@nask.pl Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS - seeking advice Message-ID: <199811252126.NAA02895@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811252051330.6716-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811252051330.6716-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>,
Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> wrote:
>
> I'm about to commit massive changes to picobsd stuff, and I'm not sure
> what is the best way to do this.
>
> I need to rearrange several directories, rename them, and add several new
> files. Is there any magic CVS incantation which will do this in one easy
> step? (I doubt there is, but at least I asked.. :-). How to do this
> efficiently?
If a whole bunch of files are being renamed or moved to a different
directory, we sometimes do a so-called "repository copy" in order to
preserve the change history in the newly-named files. However, I
personally am not a big advocate of that technique, except perhaps
as a way to correct erroneous commits or imports immediately after
they've occurred. (I should note that all repository copies must be
done by peter@freebsd.org or jdp@freebsd.org, or by asami@freebsd.org
in the case of ports.) Usually I prefer to use "cvs rm" and "cvs
add", because they avoid behind-the-scenes hackery on the CVS
repository. So ... I guess my answer to your question is no, there
isn't a magic incantation.
John
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