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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] question on policy of renaming an extension
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Brad House wrote:

> The ext/mcve module at some point in time needs to be renamed
> ext/monetra to reflect a naming change, and lessen confusion
> in the field, as the product is no longer referenced as MCVE.
>
> What is the best way to go about doing this? I did not want to
> just go in there and remove ext/mcve and commit the same stuff
> to ext/monetra and 'get in trouble'. (Truthfully, I don't know
> if I even have the perms to do this).

The way to do this is:
(on the cvs server):
cp -r mcve montra

then on the client side with CVS:

cvs delete mcve
cvs commit mcve (or similar)

Derick