Re: [boost] Recent is_POD.hpp rename breaks branches.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-05 18:11:17

Brad King <brad.king_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> Recently there was discussion about renaming
> 
>   boost/type_traits/is_POD.hpp
> 
> to
> 
>   boost/type_traits/is_pod.hpp
> 
> IIRC, someone actually renamed the ",v" file on the CVS server.  This
> doesn't quite work.  One should COPY the ",v" file to the new name, and
> then "cvs remove" the old name from the trunk.  Finally, one should "cvs
> remove" the NEW name from any release branches and use "cvs tag -d" to
> delete the sticky-tags on the branches from the NEW name.

Yup, that's right.

> All of this is to avoid the problem I just encountered.  I checked out
> version Version_1_29_0 from CVS, only to discover that the "is_POD.hpp"
> header is not found.

You can thank our friendly CVS maintainers at SourceForge. We just
asked them to rename the file; we didn't think we needed to give them
detailed instructions about how to do it right ;-(.

-Dave

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