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=== Moving and renaming files ===
Moving files to a different directory or renaming them is not difficult, but some of the ways in which this works may be non-obvious. (Moving or renaming a directory is even harder. See [[cvs: Moving and renaming directories#Moving and renaming directories|Moving directories]].). The examples below assume that the file old is renamed to new. [[cvs: The Normal way to Rename#The Normal way to Rename|• Outside]]:: The normal way to Rename [[cvs: Moving the history file#Moving the history file|• Inside]]:: A tricky, alternative way [[cvs: Copying the history file#Copying the history file|• Rename by copying]]:: Another tricky, alternative way This document was generated on a sunny day using [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ texi2html].