Re: RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:58:25PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> Neil Booth wrote:
> >Steven Bosscher wrote:-
> >
> >>Can this be done without losing revision history? IIRC there was a 
> >>thread about a year and a half ago about this, and the argument against 
> >>it was that you'd lose all that information, and that we therefore 
> >>should wait until sources.redhat moves from CVS to subversions.
> >
> >I believe it can, but I'm not volounteering to do it.  If retaining
> >history is required, someone else will have to do it or we keep the
> >current directory layout.
> >
> I think we really should; it really helps a lot if you only have to deal 
> with one repository with incremental changes if you're hunting 
> regressions.   OTOH, getting all those c-* files out of the gcc/ 
> directory is something one can only cheer about...

If we're willing to get a little underhanded, we can do the shuffling in the
repository directory structure itself, i.e., cp/mv the foo,v files directly.

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