>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 20:00:54 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] >> Subject: RE: Possible modifications to CVS. >> >> It's also a required feature if you're migrating from one well-organized >> structure to another, if you also require keeping the cumulative history >> of each file in one easy-to-find place.
>Reorganisation can much more easily be done outside of the respective >version control tools, and then the history can be migrated intact. I'm trying to understand: Reorganize outside the version control tools, then migrate history. Something's wrong with this picture. Either you copy out snapshots and re-import, which by definition loses history, or you muck about with the repository and lose reproducibility. >It's just a matter of perspective. I think it's more than that. >> >If you organise your files first, and then put them into CVS, such a >> >capability is unnecessary and if poorly implemented would even get in >> >the way (in any number of possible ways). >> >> If poorly implemented... >Oh, come on Paul! Two other highly respected CVS experts have claimed >that it would be nearly impossible to graft on such a feature to the >existing CVS implementation. Thus how could it possibly not be poorly >implemented!?!?!?!?! With the existing CVS implementation, this is true. However, I think that all of us who've contributed code agree that CVS has needed a new design for quite a few years, to address more problems than just this one. >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
