[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS issue.

[Mathieu Roy]

Aymeric Moizard <address@hidden> said:

> Hi,
> 
> Moving from version 1 to version 2 of my project, I
> have modified the directory structure of my
> project.
> 
> Actually, people do:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/osip co osip
> 
> I want them to get the new version with the same command above and get
> the old version with this new one:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/osip co osip1
> 
> This way, people downloading the new release won't get empty directory
> while using the basic and recommended CVS command seen on savannah.
> 
> Is it possible to rename an old module in the CVS(osip to osip1)? What's
> the process.
> Is there any other recommended way of doing this.

Usually, this can of task are done using cvs tag.

Sometimes it's usefull to create a new directory, especially if the
next version is completely different from the previous.

But create a new directory for each important version would be a pain
to manage.

Regards,


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