Re: options.el obsolete?

[Stefan Monnier]

> If you have CVS access, you can keep the history if you do this:
> 
> a) COPY the options.el,v file to the obsoleted/ directory
> 
> Then at your normal checkout:
> 
> b) cvs update
> 
> c) "cvs remove" the old options.el file with a log messages
>    saying it has moved to the obsoleted/ directory.
> 
> d) optionally commit (with -f) a change log for the new file
>    mentioning that it has been moved to opsoleted/ directory.

Please don't.  If you then check out "-r EMACS_21.1" you'll get both
the lisp/options.el and the lisp/obsolete/options.el.
CVS just cannot do file moves correctly, and it's not worth trying
that hard.


        Stefan