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Re: Moving C to its own directory (was Re: ObjC tree inlining)
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:27:45PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 04:59:53PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> > c-lang.c is C only. I think it would be good to create a C directory
> > for the C front end to dispel confusion like this. It might also help
> > towards making C just another front end, rather than the somewhat
> > special status it currently has. What do you think Joseph?
>
> The usual objection to this is that it makes CVS history browsing more
> difficult,e.g., the problems discussed in
>
> http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_7.html#SEC66
>
> No matter which of the two or three methods of moving files we use, at
> least one CVS operation will be much harder.
I say if we wait about another six months Subversion[1] will be usable
enough that we can scrap CVS, and then we'll have a version control
system that actually understands renaming files.
zw
[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/ IIRC