[ale] Ooops - Moved some CVS files others have checked out.

[John Mills]

Christopher -

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> >From what I understand, CVS will not allow you to change the past.  So 
> be sure you do what you want to do.  You may have to manually hack the 
> CVS tree so these files can be edited.

No - I don't hack CVS's administrative files casually.

> The best way is for them to check out the new files.  diff the old to
> the new, patch the new with the diff then update the repository.

I've done that to merge old and new filesets, putting a new 'HEAD'
revision onto an older tree I had brought in from MKS/Source Integrity,
but in which migration a number of files had shed their histories, and new
files had been added.

If my users can a check file back in which was removed since they checked
it out, this would simplify the problem because it would allow me to do
the patching on a Linux box, whereas most developers are working on
Window-boxes. (That's how the situation developed, I'm sure.)
  
> > First I renamed some files in CVS to correct naming and usage 
> conventions: 
> >  <somedir>/YOYO.STRING 
> > to: 
> >  <somedir>/YoYo.string 

> > What's the smoothest way work through this situation. 

 - John Mills


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