RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[Steven Bosscher]

Neil Booth wrote:

>Steven Bosscher wrote:-
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>>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.
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>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.
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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...

>That argument was 18 months ago; subversions is still not released
>and when I last used it about 6 months ago was surprisingly slow.
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That is a shame :-(

Gr.
Steven