[cvsnt] Manually renaming files

[Tony Hoyle]

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