Re: CVS Update Behaviour

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 12:05:34 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but I use "cvs log" every time I do a
> "cvs update" to read other people's thoughts about the changes they've
> made to the code I'm about modify.  If just one of those files has been
> renamed in its past, then I want "cvs log" to show the file's entire
> history, before and after the rename (and indeed before and after
> *every* rename in its past).

So?  That's all pretty irrelevant.

How often have you had to run two or more commands to look at the
history of a file across a rename?  (which is what I asked in the first
place)

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you'll only need to do this about
once per renamed file -- i.e. on the very first commit of an actual
change to a renamed file.

I know for a fact that's what happens for me and for everyone I've ever
worked with.

I've only once ever in nearly eight years of using CVS had to retrieve a
revision from a renamed file and then "manually" do a diff against a
revision under the current name.  <sarcasm> and oh, my, it was the most
horrifying and difficult and ugly thing I ever had to do with CVS! </sarcasm>

Get a life guys!  This should be the least of your worries!

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                                                                Greg A. Woods

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