On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 21:46, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Vadim & I seem to have agreed about moving None.texi
> and xrefs.texi (obsolete files no longer included in
> the info build) out of the doc/info directory and
> into archive/. Are there any objections?
No. Go ahead.
> If not, I wonder what's the best way to accomplish that.
> CVS doesn't handle moving very well.
That is quite an understatement.
> The simplest solution
> that I found after some web surfing is
>
> mv foo somewhere
> cvs add somewhere/foo
> cvs rm foo
> cvs ci -m'Moved foo to somewhere/foo' foo somewhere/foo
Yes. What you found is all you can do.
> I can't tell if this or some other procedure has been
> applied to the files currently living in archive/.
>
> CVS repository hacking is straight out! I won't
> even consider it.
I did a little repository hacking early on in the new project, but it
was on a one-time-only basis.
--Jim