RFC: Moving C to its own directory

cgd@broadcom.com cgd@broadcom.com
Mon Jun 2 17:22:00 GMT 2003


At Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:59:44 +0000 (UTC), "David O'Brien" wrote:
> The only "hole" is that "cvs co -D" will give more files than actually
> existed on that date.

Which, since people do checkouts by date often in GCC, may be quite
significant.


> That still won't break the build, and since GCC
> tags so often,

Uh, "won't" by luck, or "can't."  Probably the former.  (There can by
great joy if a new header with a oft-used name pops up in an old
source tree.)


"cvs doesn't support this."

(I've had people suggest to me, in the past, "well, then, why not
change all of the dates on the revision."  Talk about "just don't get
it...")



cgd



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