From kde-core-devel Thu Feb 17 13:15:12 2005 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:15:12 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Subversion problems Message-Id: <20050217131512.GA10048 () ugly ! local> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110864611931793 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:06:49PM +0100, David Faure wrote: > > how do we proceed about migrating our cvs "moves"? > > 1) just import the shit from cvs literally. this is simple, but > > creates "ghost files" in old checkouts; most of them don't even > > compile for this reason. > > Why should it create ghost files in old checkouts? Whenever we move > something in CVS, we remove all tags from the copied files, in order > to prevent them from appearing in old checkouts. > i'm not sure, but i have the strong suspicion that this does not work with svn. a tag is just a name for a revision. you can't just take out files from a revision. maybe cvs2svn creates extra branches with the relevant files deleted. or it just breaks down completely ... apart from that, this does not work when referencing by date. i always hated this. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.