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Re: RFC: Moving C to its own directory
Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> writes:
> I think it is. For instance you would not be able to do an useful cvs
> annotate on the new files. This is crucial to at least see who checked in
> when this particular line, to align it with a ChangeLog entry and the
> gcc-patches mail. This is very crucial information, and we shouldn't
> lightly give up on trying to maintain this, _even_ if it could perhaps
> result in sometimes funny checkouts of the old tree (I don't think this
> happens very often).
You can always just notice that this change happened in version 1.1,
and then go look at the previous location of the file. You have to do
this anyway for many changes because the original change was in GCC
2.x in the old repository.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>