Re: How to retain revision history when copying files from one cvs project to another?

[Paul Sander]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 02:36  PM, address@hidden wrote:
> We have all our source code in the CVS repository as
> one project. Now we want to start a new project in
> CVS. But we will be requiring files from the existing
> project into the new project. How can we copy/move the
> files over to the new project without losing their
> revision history? Is there a way to do this?
> Does the cvs import command work for doing this?
> Please let me know if anyone has an answer.

To preserve revision history, you must carry the RCS files from the old 
project to the new project.  If the two projects are in the same 
repository, and you expect to do a lot of cross-merging, then you can 
define the new project's module in such a way that the RCS files are 
shared.  The trick here is that the shared code must be completely 
contained within a directory tree that also contains nothing else.

Otherwise, you should copy the RCS files by hand from their present 
location in the repository to the new location.