Re: control-center reorganization in CVS

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On 05 Jul 2001 18:49:00 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Chema Celorio <chema ximian com> writes:
> 
> > On 05 Jul 2001 16:44:52 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> > > And /me is still trying to understand why this rename was neccessarry at all.
> > 
> > I'll put a simple example (there where lots of cases like this)
> > We had :
> > 
> > a) cvs/control-center/control-center/
> > and
> > b) cvs/control-center/new-control-center
> > 
> > We neeed to rename "b" and call it "a", but "a" is beeing used by the
> > stable branch. There can only be one "control-center" directory in cvs.
> > We had about 12 directories that had "-new" in their name. 
> 
> Not that it really helps, but in case this wasn't clear, the right
> thing to do was not to create new-* directories in the first
> place, but simply:
> 
>  a) Branch
>  b) Change (remove and add files, etc.) the control-center/control-center
>     directory in place.
>

/me nods twice

yes, but this was before my time. Dunno who did it, and it does not
matter anymore but i am confident that whoever did it will not do it
again.

regards,
Chema