EGCS->GCC: Snapshot names

[law@redhat.com]

  In message < Pine.BSF.4.30.0011100342280.45946-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at >
you write:
  > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Joe Buck wrote:
  > >> Hmmm - they're all over CVSweb as it's the name of one of the
  > >> directories in the hierarchy :-)
  > > This should be fixable -- CVS now lets you check out that directory
  > > as "gcc" rather than "egcs", so it should be possible to fix CVSweb
  > > to show the directory as "gcc" rather than "egcs".
  > 
  > Not to the best of my knowledge. I tried, but it just does not work.
  > 
  > If you start at < http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ >, you
  > will see the egcs subdirectory; and even if you manually enter
  > < http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/ > you are automatically
  > redirected to < http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/egcs/ >.
  > 
  > It seems we'll have to remove the subdirectory in the CVS tree to
  > changes this.
At some point we're going to need to do this.  Maybe CVS will cooperate
and DTRT if we rename the directory to "gcc" and leave a symlink "egcs".
Then after an appropriate period we remove the symlink completely.

jeff