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Re: CVS Update Behaviour
From: |
Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: CVS Update Behaviour |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:31:26 -0500 (EST) |
[ On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 13:25:37 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
>
> And every time a merge is done from a branch where a rename was done on
> one of the branches.
And what has been said about that for years now? DON'T DO THAT!!!!
> This involves several files every time a patch goes
> out, if the project was reorganized since the code diverged. This
> phonomenon is much more common than you think.
Maybe because of accidents, but that's something which is correctable.
Meanwhile using 'patch', or some other merge tool also works just fine.
> Not renaming files is a fine workaround for lacking the ability to rename
> files, if you can live with it. You can obviously live with it, but some
> of us cannot.
Who said you can't rename files? You just have to plan for it.
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- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, (continued)
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/21
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Noel Yap, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Steve Greenland, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour,
Greg A. Woods <=
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/23
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/24
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Noel Yap, 2002/02/24
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/25
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/26
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/26
- Re: renames under CVS, Noel Yap, 2002/02/26
- Re: renames under CVS, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/26
- Re: renames under CVS, Noel Yap, 2002/02/26
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Paul Sander, 2002/02/25