Source Control and Refactoring

[Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)]

"Tobin Harris" <tobin_dont_you_spam_me@breathemail.net> might (or
might not) have written this on (or about) Sat, 28 Jun 2003 06:33:08
+0100, :
Hi there,This is a bit of a silly question, but I'd be interested in comments!...In short, does anyone find that the CVS source-control system is a bit of anobstacle to renaming classes, when your filenames mirror class names? For myteam, this is a real pain becuase we like to revist our naming of classesoften, but then there's the whole drag of having to remove/re-add thecorrecsponding file to CVS!!! Ideally some CVS tool would detect ourrenaming antics and update the repository accordingly. Or are we just lazy?

No you aren't lazy. It's important to remove any impediment to
improving your design.

Get a tool like IntelliJ. It automatically changes file names in CVS
when you change class names. It's also a kick-ass IDE!




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[Ilja Preuß]

> Get a tool like IntelliJ. It automatically changes file names in CVS when you change class names. It's also a kick-ass IDE!

Not if you are working with C# or Ruby, I guess... ;)

There are Eclipse-Plugins for those languages - don't know about their
usefullnes, though:
http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/plugins.jsp?category=Languages

[Tobin Harris]

"Ilja Preuß" <preuss@disy.net> wrote in message
news:be0lnq$uer$1@stu1id2.ip.tesion.net... As far as I know, I'm stuck with: 1. DOS Copy file to new 'desired' name 2. CVS 'remove' old file (along with local version also) 3. CVS 'add' new file 4. CVS 'commit' new file Looks a lot like a batch-script, doesn't it? ;)

Yeah, pretty much. I wrote a VS.NET macro today that does the job nicely
from within the IDEs solution explorer, so I'm pretty pleased with myself!

Tobes
Regards, Ilja