Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 18:39:19 (+0200), Alexander Welti wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit 
> for all subdirs
>
> i received a really cool trick for my problem:
> go to the repository directly (have a backup copy)
> rename the desired directory;
> do a fresh checkout and everything works fine;

That "stupid hack" will destroy any possibility of retrieving past revisions.

It will also disrupt current working directories somewhat.

The correct procedure (as documented in the manual) is to:

        1. create the new directory
        2. move all the files from the old directory to the new one
        3. "cvs rm *" in the old directory
        4. "cvs add newdir"
        5. "cd newdir; cvs add *"
        6. "cvs commit" at the root of the working directory and give a
           commit message that identifies exactly what you've done.

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