Curt Sampson writes:
> It's my (perahps uninformed) opinion that we should copy the file,
> rather than removing it, and cvs delete the old one.  That will
> preserve the revision history, but also allow checkouts of systems
> before that date to work.

There is one more step to the accepted technique, which is to strip
the tags from the copied version, to prevent accidents when checking
out old tagged versions of the tree.

Perry