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


From: Paul Sander
Subject: Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs]
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:12:44 -0700

>--- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods:


>[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 05:44:16 (GMT), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs]
>>
>> In article <address@hidden>, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>> >>  * 'cvs log BAR' does not list changes in file FOO
>> >
>> >Of course not!!!!  You do not want it to!  That would be illogical.
>> 
>> That is false. Just because the tool doesn't do something doesn't mean we
>> don't *want* it or that it is illogical. Some version control tools can
>> handle renames.  The actual object being version is stored anonymously,
>> and a path name is just another versioned property of that object.

>Let me repeat:  You DO NOT want or need to have "cvs log BAR" list
>changes in the file "FOO".  To want that is illogical.  It is
>unnecessary!

You do, if the version history of FOO is part of the history of BAR,
having become that way by way of a reorganization of the project.

>Unless and until you understand this you will not understand how CVS
>manages change and how filenames are used within CVS.

Until you understand why the design of CVS is broken, you will never
understand why this is a reasonable expectation.  Go away and figure
it out.

>--- End of forwarded message from address@hidden




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