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Tony Hoyle wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:16:01 +0100, "Gavin Kinsey" > <gavin.kinsey at accutest.co.uk> wrote: > > >>I have a rare opportunity tommorrow to access the machine the cvsnt is >>running on and am going to use the opportunity to upgrade to the latest >>version. >> >>I would also like to fix some of the wrongly named (mainly ones with spaces >>in) and positioned files. I know the only way to do this while retaining >>revision histories is manual edits, my question is. Is it as simple as >>moving/renaming the files in the repository or do any files need to be >>altered (something like Entries files)? >> > > You really shouldn't do this, as you break the history, and eveyone > who currently has the repository checked out will need to delete their > sandbox and start again. They are going to have to do this anyway as the CVSROOT settings are changing. I think it's better to do this than have a bunch of broken and/or dead files in the repository. > > The correct way to rename a file is: > > cvs delete <oldfile> > cvs add <newfile> Which means you lose the revision history, precisley what I want to avoid.