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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
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], (continued)
- Message not available
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Sam Steingold, 2001/10/10
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Paul Sander, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/11
- Message not available
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Kaz Kylheku, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs],
Paul Sander <=
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/12
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Paul Sander, 2001/10/12
- Message not available
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Kaz Kylheku, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Mark Jackson, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/11
- Message not available
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Kaz Kylheku, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/11
- Message not available
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Sam Steingold, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Paul D. Smith, 2001/10/11
- Re: address@hidden: Re: rename in cvs], Greg A. Woods, 2001/10/11