Three-level ports (Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED)

[Will Andrews]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:50AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:10:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > [*] e.g. addressing some key technical issues like the fact that all
> > the repo-copies needed to move ports around would more than double the
> > size of the ports CVS repository
> 
> You should use the mv(1) command instead of the cp(1) command,
> specially for this. It doesn't matter for history, history is in
> the files, not in the directories.

Unless I'm mistaken, this would not work as cvs checkouts would
get confused and bomb when they see that there's no ,v file for a
given checkout file...

regards,
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wca