Renaming modules in CVS

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Aug 11 06:18:58 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:25 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:20 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > 
> >>How do we rename modules in CVS?
> > 
> > 
> > mv /cvs/xorg/...
> > 
> > I don't know of another method that will preserve CVS history.
> 
> Won't that break everyones cvs updates or do we care at this point?

I'm fairly sure it will delete the old directory and create the new one;
CVS uses the filesystem itself to record what files and directories
exist.

-keith

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