moving files in CVS, diff mailing list

moving files in CVS, diff mailing list

[Glenn Morris]

When I moved the texi files recently, I did it by:
mv foo.texi ../doc/emacs
cvs remove foo.texi
cvs commit -m "Move to ../doc/emacs" foo.texi

cd ../doc/emacs
cvs add foo.texi
cvs commit -m "Move here from ../../man" foo.texi


That's the standard, safe way to move files in CVS AFAIK.

For some reason, a lot of the resulting mails to the emacs-diff list
seem to show the changes being made at the top level, ie without a
directory part. Eg:


    Subject:     [Emacs-diffs] Changes to etags.1
    Date:        Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:51:33 +0000
    Index: etags.1
    ===================================================================
    RCS file: etags.1
    diff -N etags.1


Normally, there is a directory part:

    Subject:  [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/ChangeLog,v
    Date:     Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:53:40 +0000
    Index: ChangeLog
    ===================================================================
    RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/etc/ChangeLog,v


Is this difference anything to worry about?

I notice that when Miles added lisp/termdev.el, there was a directory
part, albeit again different to how it normally appears (no leading
"emacs"):

    Subject:  [Emacs-diffs] Changes to lisp/termdev.el
    Date:     Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:28:52 +0000
    Index: lisp/termdev.el
    ===================================================================
    RCS file: lisp/termdev.el


Is this all just some quirk of the script that mails the diffs?