Re: changing module names, preserving history

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Sean Brown <address@hidden> writes:

> I've inhereted a cvs repository with a whole bunch of modules from a
> previous IT director who, apparently, had never heard of naming
> conventions.  I'd like to rename the modules, but I'm afraid of losing
> the history associated with them.
> 
> I've been told that I can simply SSH in, change to root,  and change
> the names of the module direcotries and all history will be preserved.
> 
> So, let's say:
> 
> CVSROOT=/home/cvs/cvsroot
> 
> and there is a module in their named "badly_named_module."  It would
> be /home/cvs/cvsroot/badly_named_module.  If I changed the name of the
> directory to /home/cvs/cvsroot/perfectly_named_module, would all of
> the files contained therein keep their history?

Yes.

Beware that if there were any scripts or documents that had
module-relative names, they may have problems (consider if
"bad_module_other/index.html" had a line like
  <a href="../badly_named_module/foo.html">text about foo</a>
then you have introduced problems in your repository.

        -- Mark
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