Re: [jamboost] Re: help with Borland build break

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-09 02:06:38

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:28:07PM -0600, Rene Rivera wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
> > Rene Rivera wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Eric Niebler wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Can somebody 
> >>>familiar with CVS tell me how to move a file while preserving its 
> >>>revision history?
> >>
> >>
> >>That question has a complicated answer... This is something I did when we 
> >>reorganized the Boost.Build CVS structure. It goes something like this...
> > 
> > 
> > [ omit absurdly complicated process ]
> > 
> > Yikes. I think I'll take Dave's suggestion and just lose the revision 
> > history in this case. ;-)
> > 
> > Thanks anyway, Rene. I'm sure this information will come in handy 
> > eventually.
> 
> No problem... I forgot to mention that at some point in that process you start 
> cursing the design and use of CVS and run screaming from the room ;-)
> 
I adminitering some cvs repositories, I actualy this is not such a big problem,
if you have a direct access to the repository. Whole process can be made localy
in few minutes. Unfortunately, this is not the case wit sourceforge.

Pavol