At 11:51 AM 6/15/2004, Sascha Schumann wrote: >On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Guenter Knauf wrote: > >> Hi, >> does somebody know if its possible to move a file from one dir >> to another without loosing the history? > > It usually boils down to this: > > 1. Copy the ,v file in the repository to the new location > 2. Use "cvs delete" on the old location > > This method preserves the history and tag/branch information.
Usually, you would also dump the release tags from the new copy, since you wouldn't want it checked out from it's *new* home on some checkout of PROD_1_0_1_RELEASE. Historical checkouts by date would have the duplicate file, which is why this isn't usually recommended practice. Bill
