Re: is this right?

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:06:14PM -0400, Raymund Rimando wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2001 12:54, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 17:18:54 (+0530), address@hidden
> > wrote: ]
> > > Is this the right way to rename a jpeg file?
> > >
> > > $ mv old new
> > > $ cvs remove old
> > > $ cvs add new
> > > $ cvs commit -m "Renamed old to new" old new
> >
> > That's the best way, yes.
> 
> Is this also applicable to directory names?

NO!  In an ideal world it would be of course, but in fact it
won't work at all.

For how to do it in this less-than-ideal world, see the "Moving
directories" node in the manual.

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