From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:51:46 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Better handling of copies.
X-Git-Tag: 0.1~51
X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5d7eb695942c844fb617d61f613c965eda7bbed;p=rcs-fast-import.git

Better handling of copies.
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diff --git a/rcs-fast-import b/rcs-fast-import
index 288e560..679d923 100755
--- a/rcs-fast-import
+++ b/rcs-fast-import
@@ -614,12 +614,13 @@ class RCS:
         # than doing nothing.
         os.rename(RCS.master(op.source), RCS.master(op.target))
     def copy(self, source, target):
-        "Perform RCS copies."
-        # The copy will get the original's history.
-        # There's a case that what we ought to do instead
-        # is check out the tip rev and use it to initialize
-        # a new master.
-        shutil.copy(RCS.master(source), RCS.master(target))
+        "Perform RCS copies. Start the copy with no history"
+        uphere = os.path.basename(target)
+        do_or_die("co %s" % RCS.master(source), "copy checkout")
+        os.rename(source, here)
+        do_or_die("ci -i -m'Copy of %s' -l %s %s"
+                  % (source, uphere, RCS.master(target)))
+        os.remove(uphere)
     def checkout(self, switch):
         "Post-conversion actions."
         if switch != '-l':