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Re: [RFC] Thoughts on reordering the source tree
- From: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
- To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 14:53:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Thoughts on reordering the source tree
- References: <571f6b510905010505r515583cehf5ec2407620b6c12@mail.gmail.com>
2009/5/1 Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Now that GCC uses subversion, we can move files around without
> destroying the file revision history, right? And we are in stage1, the
> perfect time for Big Changes like re-ordering the source tree.
If you going to tackle this, I would suggest to start with moving C
stuff to its own directory. This has been wanted for a long time:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-11/msg00908.html
This still may need some testing. Subversion renaming support is not
perfect and it may make more difficult subsequent merges:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898
In the case a branch modifies the files moved in trunk, merge will not
transfer the changes to the new location and in some cases it may lose
the changes in the branch:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2685
Cheers,
Manuel.