Re: moving files between modules and preserving the history

[Paul Sander]

Moving files and directories around in the repository does NOT preserve 
the history of the shape of the source tree.  I believe this is 
mentioned in the documentation somewhere.

If you want to relocate entire directory trees, then you can encode the 
proper shape of the tree in the modules database, but you must create a 
new entry every time you reorganize.  You must also use an ad-hoc 
name-based versioning system for the entries to preserve 
reproducibility.

Note that this does not work if you want to direct individual files to 
new directories, and there's a limit to how much you can do this before 
the mechanism becomes too unwieldy.

Another method that has been advocated in the past is to re-import all 
your sources into a new directory in the repository, after having 
reorganized them externally.  This method has its own problems, 
including the fragmentation of version history and faster consumption 
of disk space.

On Sep 9, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Brocha Strous wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to move entire sub-directories from one module to another but
> preserve the histories. I thought that moving the files/directories on
> the server should work but but when I try to check out the destination
> module the moved directory does not get checked out.
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