[cvsnt] Re: cvs rename - Which features wil be implemented?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Sep 7 14:34:29 BST 2004


Johannes Kilian wrote:

> Are there plans to support something like a restructuring of the checked 
> out module by moving ("renaming") a file from one directory to another 
> (something like the mv-command from UNIX)?
> That's exactly what we would need: restructuring our modules by moving 
> some file to another subdirectory within the module ....
>
Yes.  That might even work now, although I've not tried it recently.

The one thing that isn't in the next release is renaming directories. 
The server can handle it (you can already fake it with a modules2 file) 
but making it work with existing clients is quite difficult.

Tony



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