Re: future of cvs

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Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> address@hidden <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > we are using cvs for already 5 years in a 3500 files/500 folders
> > project (php) and time comes for rearranging file structure a bit.
>
> Yup, that time comes to most projects eventually.

I wonder how other projects using cvs solve this?

> If you are just worried about renaming files and directories, you may
> find DCVS http://fdd.com/software/dcvs/ by Kaz Kylheku
> <address@hidden> to be a useful extension to CVS (Note: I have
> not actually used DCVS myself.)

Hm... this does not seem stable enough for mission critical work.

> Hmmm... I am not aware of anything particular on the roadmap for
> supporting file structure reorganzation, but if you have suggestions or
> code to contribute, we can discuss it on the address@hidden mailing
> list (or address@hidden if you have patches to be considered).

We are php people. I am afraid we can't contribute in C.

Is it possible the repository to be touched carefully for file/directory 
renaming purpose? I read somewhere that the human readable form of the 
cvs repository is an advantage over subversion. What will happen if we 
simply rearrange the repository (the folders and ,v files there) and 
checkout again?