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Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?
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Ralf Angeli |
Subject: |
Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:22:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
* Miles Bader (2004-10-20) writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> And it should be simple enough to move the files around in the
>> Gnus CVS repository without losing any CVS history if I do it by hand
>> and is, er, careful. I think.
>
> I think this is generally considered a very bad thing to do. It's much safer
> (if less exciting) to just do the old cvs add+rm thing, and make the first
> commit log in the new location "renamed from foo".
>
> The reason it's bad, as I understand it, is that it essentially changes
> history; I'm not entirely sure of the all the user-visible repercussions, but
> I'm not sure I want to find out the hard way...
Why don't you just dump CVS and switch to a different version
management system which supports these kinds of operation?
When preview-latex will get integrated in AUCTeX we will probably have
to move and rename many files as well and it is a pity that we are
stuck with CVS due to Savannah not providing alternatives.
--
Ralf
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, (continued)
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/15
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Simon Josefsson, 2004/10/15
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2004/10/15
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Simon Josefsson, 2004/10/15
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/15
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Miles Bader, 2004/10/17
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/18
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Miles Bader, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?,
Ralf Angeli <=
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Ralf Angeli, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Miles Bader, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Karl Fogel, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, David Kastrup, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, David Kastrup, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Miles Bader, 2004/10/20
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2004/10/21
- Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?, Miles Bader, 2004/10/21