Re: renaming under CVS

[Noel Yap]

--- Paul Sander <address@hidden> wrote:
> >--- Forwarded mail from address@hidden
> >In the original scenario both developers were
> working on different
> >branches.
> 
> The treatment of renames during merges should work
> the same way
> regardless of whether or not the two developers
> share a branch.
> A 3-way merge is a 3-way merge, and the point here
> is that
> directories should be treated in substantially the
> same way as
> files, with regard to merging changes to their
> contents (i.e.
> the mapping between version histories and the
> location of a
> version in the directory trees).

I agree that a 3-way merge is a 3-way merge, but
directory versioning is an ideal I'm not sure CVS can
achieve.  (But the wheels are still churning on this
one).

Noel

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