Re: [RFA] Rename python files.

Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-08-29T16:12:42Z

Em TerÃ§a-feira 25 Agosto 2009 12:28:17 Matt Rice escreveu:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> How should said renaming be done, by submitting and committing a patch
> >> which removes the old file and adds a new one, or by moving things
> >> around in CVSROOT?
> >
> > The latter is better, because it preserves the CVS history. But I
> > think it requires special privileges on the repository.
>
> fyi I believe that by moving things around in the CVSROOT the changes
> will not be automatically picked by the cvs/git conversion.

I don't know much about conversions from CVS so I'll take your word on it. A
quick search on the interwebs seem to indicate that conversion tools aren't
good about detecting renames anyway, since CVS doesn't support the operation.

IMHO the best way to do it then is to use the CVS-friendly way of doing a
"rename": cvs rm $FILE, cvs add $NEW_FILE. IUUC git would be able to detect
such rename (though I don't know it would show up in an svn-converted repo).

Ok if I do it that way?
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