[rancid] Re: Rancid attic devices

[john heasley]

Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:21:56PM +0800, Kanagaraj Krishna:
> Hi,
>      I have a question regarding the reuse of previous added device on
> rancid. This is the situation. Previously I've added a device with IP
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and realised that once it was deleted from router.db,  it
> was placed under attic. Currently I'm planning to use the same IP
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx for another device but at the same time maintain the older
> device configs as well. What is best way to do this?  Thanks
> 
> Regards,
> Kanagaraj Krishna
> 
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This is really a CVS question.

IIRC, when a file is added that was previous "cvs delete"'ed, the files is
essentially resurrected.  Meaning that you start off from whence you had
ended, thus maintaining all the history.  I think that applies to subversion
as well.

If you wanted to maintain them separately, you can goof with the repository
-- which I do not encourage -- by renaming the repository file from
Attic/foo,v to Attic/foo_old,v or something similar.