[p4] moving files in a depot

[Stephen Vance]

That generally is right.  You are doing the rename procedure on several 
files.  Although checkpoint surgery is possible, renaming is more advisable 
unless you really can't live with the results.

Steve

At 06:11 PM 4/24/2001 -0700, Steve Karrer wrote:

>I've got a user who has structured his directories in a way that
>is inconsistent with other users.  I'd like to move his data
>into the normal structure.  None of the examples I've seen apply
>to this particular case.  Basically, I want to go from a dir with
>multiple files to individual dirs with one file each.
>
>All the branching discussions I've seen have revolved around moving
>a directory tree to another location within the depot.  What about
>individual files?  Do I have to move them and essentially break from
>any history the file might have?  Basically, I'm thinking I want to
>branch on a file basis.  That just doesn't seem right...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Steve
>
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