[RFC] Thoughts on reordering the source tree

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

2009/5/1 Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Now that GCC uses subversion, we can move files around without
> destroying the file revision history, right? And we are in stage1, the
> perfect time for Big Changes like re-ordering the source tree.

If you going to tackle this, I would suggest to start with moving C
stuff to its own directory. This has been wanted for a long time:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-11/msg00908.html

This still may need some testing. Subversion renaming support is not
perfect and it may make more difficult subsequent merges:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898

In the case a branch modifies the files moved in trunk, merge will not
transfer the changes to the new location and in some cases it may lose
the changes in the branch:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2685

Cheers,

Manuel.