Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] reorganizing source tree

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From: "Peter Kjellerstedt" <peter.kjellerstedt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:27:29 +0100
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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