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> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brad Hards
> Sent: 06 November 2003 11:56
> To: Bryan Henderson
> Cc: Guy Harris; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] reorganizing source tree
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> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:18 pm, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I have none (other than the loss of CVS history it'd
> > cause, thanks to CVS not knowing anything about renames
> > or moves, but that's life - we might be able to preserve
> > some of it by copying the ,v files to epan/packet and
> > just "cvs remove"ing the files in the top-level directory).
>
> If you can access the server filesystem, you can move the
> files around without losing history. It doesn't come for
> free though - you won't be able to check out old revisions
> of ethereal.
Which of course is a no no.
> See http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/cgi-bin/info2html?(cvs)Inside
Copying is a much better way of moving files in CVS:
http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/cgi-bin/info2html?(cvs)Rename%20by%20copy
ing
> Brad
//Peter