Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs]

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 01:59:20 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs]
>
> And not only do you lose the ability to get a file's entire version
> history with a single "cvs log",

That is not a loss -- it is a gain.  You have it backwards.

> you also have added to a file's revision
> history all of the unwanted stuff from a previous incarnation that was
> renamed away.

Well, yes, that's a bit of a bug, but we've discussed the obvious and
very easy solution several times in the past

> Defending the ambiguity of the histories of logically different files that
> happen to share a path at one time or another, and the fragmentation of
> a file's entire version history is nonsensical.

Since you've never really understood how CVS manages change and how
filenames are used within CVS, this strange is not unsurprising.

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