Re: adding directory above in existing repository, side effects?

[Pierre Asselin]

Timothy Stone <address@hidden> wrote:

> We have an existing repository and an organizational effort underway  
> would like to add directories above the hierarchy in place.

> Existing:

> /com/domain/app/Class.java

> NEW

> /prod/com/domain/app/Class.java
> ^...^....  new directory above

Tell everyone to commit their pending changes or risk
losing them.  Create the "prod/" directory in the repository
and move the entire "com/" tree under it, to "prod/com/".

Check out the "CVSROOT" module and edit CVSROOT/module
in the resulting sandbox.  Add a line like this,

    com         prod/com

and commit it.  Try to check out a few "com" sandboxes, including
old tagged releases, it should work just as it did before.  Tell
everyone to check out a new "prod" sandbox and resume from there.

It's a little annoying to force everyone to commit and check out
from scratch, but it's not a major disruption once you've decided
to bite the bullet.


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