Re: Newby : moving/renaming files loses version information?

[Laine Stump]

address@hidden (Greg A. Woods) writes:

> I find nothing whatsoever "awkward" about the remove/add scheme.  It
> works perfectly as far as I can tell.  The awkwardness is in breaking
> any pre-concieved and incorrect notions users might have about what a
> rename operation actually is.

It makes it more difficult to do a diff of a revision of the file
pre-move with one that is post-move, especially with a frontend such
as tkCVS, which presents you with a graphical representation of the
file history, then allows you to click on the two revisions you want
to diff.