Subject: Re: CVS repository copy is the least preferred way of moving files
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/15/1999 22:54:17
May I ask that everyone stop responding to Mr. Woods? Simply because
he's got boundless energy to post inane replies is no reason for us to
follow him down the vortex.
woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> [ On Wednesday, December 15, 1999 at 18:13:25 (-0500), Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: ]
> > Wrong. The *only* way to move files in a CVS-controlled source tree,
> > while retaining revision history, involves a careful repository copy.
>
> Ah, no, you're wrong there (though I suppose it depends on what exactly
> you mean by "retaining revision history").