From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T02:37:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] CVS question

Sean O'Dell wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2004 10:19, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>>Sean O'Dell wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 26 August 2004 21:33, Jamis Buck wrote:
>>>
>>>>I just finished rewriting Copland, almost from the ground up. I'll be
>>>>announcing the new version soon(ish), but I need to get it into CVS.
>>>>Now, there's already an existing implementation of Copland in CVS, but
>>>>I'd (obviously) like to replace it with the new version.
>>>>
>>>>What is the best way to go about this? Right now, I'm leaning towards
>>>>doing a "cvs delete" on the existing implementation, and then checking
>>>>in the new implementation on top of it. Thus, the existing version
>>>>history is maintained, etc. Is there a better way to do this?
>>>
>>>Don't try and do too much through CVS; it's a massive pain to reorganize
>>>a project through CVS.  Instead, edit the CVS repository directly.
>>
>>Well, mucking with the CVS repository directly isn't really an option,
>>since I don't have direct access to the RubyForge machines. :( If this
>>really were the difference between v1 and v2 I might bug Tom about
>>reorganizing my repo, but since its not, I think I'll just go with the
>>tag-and-delete option.
> 
> 
> If you use a linux desktop, you might try Cervisia.  I don't use it for 
> day-to-day work, but whenever I've had to do major restructuring to a 
> repository that I had no shell access to, it really helped.  It's a GUI so it 
> really helps you see what is what and where everything is, and when you 
> delete something, it not only removes the file, it issues the CVS remove 
> command.  It has saved me a lot of headache a couple times.
> 

Thanks for the tip -- I may just do that. :)

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

"I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."