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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:40:52 +0200, "Oliver Giesen" <giesen at lucatec.de> wrote: >I myself prefer a middle ground between Tony's approach and yours >however: >- *copy* the ,v file in the repository to its new name/location. >- cvs remove and commit the old file (i.e. marking it as DEAD) >- checkout the new file >- use cvs admin -s to mark all revisions of the new file previous to >the rename as DEAD. > That sounds useful... I didn't know you could mark old revisions as dead. I could probably implement a cvs rename function based on that idea. Are there any drawbacks to your approach that you have found? Tony