Re: does CVS officially support renames?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 10:06:58AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> My fuzzy recollection is no, instead files are added/deleted as a commit.

That is correct.

> And based on Greg's comments, developers are copying .cvs files within
> the repo in an attempt to fudge it.

I don't think that happens (for NetBSD repositories).

Developers do not have access to the CVS server at that level and can not
manually do any kind of surgery/forgery.

What sometimes happens is that an import goes to the wrong directory
(where the directory should not exist at all) and admins are asked to nuke
all traces of that bogus import from the repository. That better happens
before the (bogus) directory ever entered the repo conversion.

Martin