Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:54:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: New function: lstat()
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> This is probably the last part of my symlink patch which does 
> not require the symlink support itself. The patch is very big 
> because all the Eli's artwork of coding in stat() has been moved
> to lstat().

It would be much better to rename the file instead.  The resultant
diffs are much easier to read and comment on ;-).

> That thing alone has added 70 kbytes. Unfortunately,
> CVS has no way for expressing file moving.

Of course, it does: see the node "Moving files" in the CVS manual.
In a nutshell:

     mv OLD NEW
     cvs remove OLD
     cvs add NEW
     cvs ci -m "Renamed OLD to NEW"