Re: CVS should die

Tom,
> (I'm rather interested to know whether any other SCMs have a better
> solution to this problem, and if so what it is.  It's not obvious how
> to do better.)
> 
I've been working with a few SCM's and IMHO only one of them really 
handles this really well. That's ClearCase. I'm well aware that 
ClearCase is not an option but I though it could still be interesting to 
know how this can be managed when done right.

In ClearCase everything (both files and directories) are "elements". A 
directory is a version of an element and it contains versions of other 
elements. It's not very different from Unix and I-nodes although 
everything is of course versioned.

Subversion claims they handle moves pretty well. When I checked it out, 
it turns out that a move is a copy (versions and all) followed by a 
delete, thus maintaining version history at both locations. I'd 
recommend anyone who think CVS is insufficient due to file moves to 
investigate subversion.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren