Q: howto change the root of the versioned filestructure?

[Russ Brown]

On 06/10/2009 02:37 AM, Erik wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a developer at a small company using Bazaar as our versioning system for
> about a year. We do web-development on Windows, and except for one bug that we
> keep running into (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218206), we're quite happy
> with it.
>
> We are running into a problem now however, for which I can't find a solution in
> the manual. The way we work currently is to version each webapp's directory from
> the root of the site. So the .bzr folder is in the root of the site. On our
> development servers, this is not a problem, but we don't want this on live
> ofcourse, this would expose the .bzr folder on the site.
> Besides that, I'd like to add the SQL updates we have, also to be versioned. And
> I don't want to put those in a directory under the site root.
>
> Currently, this is the situation, with "\wwwroot\site1\" versioned:
> \wwwroot\site1\[webpages]
>
> What I'd like is below, with "\wwwroot\site1\" versioned:
> \wwwroot\site1\siteroot\[webpages]
> \wwwroot\site1\SQLupdates\[SQL updates]
>
> Now my question is, how can I "move" the versioning one directory up, keeping
> the version history of the underlying webpages intact?
> I looked into "rebase", but I think that's not exactly what I'm looking for. Any
> help would be appreciated,
>

You should be able to do something like

cd to \wwwroot\site1\
bzr mkdir siteroot
bzr mv [files/directories you want to move] siteroot
bzr mkdir SQLupdates

Check that everything is good, and commit.

Using bzr mv will maintain the history of all moved files.

> Thanks, take care,
>
> Erik
>
> ps: last time I posted on this list I had trouble reply'ing again to the
> reactions I got, I hope it goed better this time =)
>
>