[cvsnt] Manually renaming files

[Oliver Giesen]

> > 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.

No, you don't lose the revision history. It's simply that the revision
history is broken up (before and after the rename). This way you could
still return to an earlier state of the project, where the file still
has the old name. Remember that there might be dependencies on that
file (and therefore its filename) in other files from the same point
in time.

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.

Of course, I also put tags before and after the rename. This way you
will only ever get one file when you checkout and it will always be
the one with the correct spelling/location to match potential
dependencies from elsewhere in the project. OTOH you could still view
the revision history before the rename even on the new file using cvs
log.

Oliver
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