[Cvsnt] Re-naming a module/project?

[Mehling, Ben]

Greetings,

I apologize for the long post.  I'm a new user to CVS, and when I
initially set up my repository I made the mistake of importing a
'module' (directory: oldname-2.2) with a version number stuck on the
end.  I know, bad.  I've learned now about tagging and branching.  I'm
trying to come up with a plan to fix this while keeping the existing
built-up history.  Given that the module represents thousands of files
(it's a dynamic website), I can't use the recommended
copy/add/delete/remove procedure.  I had hoped to attack this at the
repository level.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice you have!

- Ben

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Here are the steps I plan to take.  Do these look right, or am I missing
something?

1) commit all developers changes to repository and release on each
developers machine

> cvs release -d oldname-2.2

2) Backup existing repository and put in a safe place.

3) search and replace oldname-2.2 -> newname in CVSROOT/history

There appears to be "special" lines in this file:

  O3cc9d09e|username|<remote>/*0|oldname-2.2||oldname-2.2

Which appear to represent the cvs checkout command (one line for each
developer).  I think I'd do the same on these lines, replace:
oldname-2.2 with: newname in both cases, but I'm not sure.

Are there other places in the repository that the project name would
show up?  A search of the entire repository searching for oldname-2.2 in
files turns up only the entries in the CVSROOT/history file.  I guess I
was expecting it to be in other places too?

4) move the actual directory: oldname-2.2 -> newname

> mv oldname-2.2 newname

5) Issue an rtag command to set the proper version/release tag based on
a date in the past (when the module was initially created):

> cvs rtag -D "2002-04-25" 2_2_Release newname

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