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Moving outside the repository

One way to move the file is to copy old to new, and then issue the normal CVS commands to remove old from the repository, and add new to it. (Both old and new could contain relative paths inside the module).

$ mv old new
$ cvs remove old
$ cvs add new 
$ cvs commit -m "Renamed old to new" old new

Advantages:

• Checking out old revisions works correctly.

Disadvantages:

• You cannot easily see the history of the file across the rename.
• Unless you use the `-r rev' (see section commit options) flag when new is committed its revision numbers will start at 1.0 again.

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