RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:45:04PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I'm not a huge fan of this technique -- it can cause interesting
> failure modes down the road, e.g. it can land you with foo.c,v and
> Attic/foo.c,v in the same directory.

This should not happen.  It can only happen if the repo copy isn't done
carefully.  FreeBSD has a rule that one cannot repo a file to a location
of an old dead file.  In practice, this restriction doesn't get in the
way.

> However, I don't think the history discontinuity is as big a problem as
> some other people seem to feel it is.

I tend to agree -- GCC cvs ci messages are simply restatements of the
ChangeLog and those simply restate the C code diff in English.  GCC
committers don't add the useful why and "further thought" that other
projects do.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)