Re: glib move

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Johannes Stezenbach <js convergence de> writes:

> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > No problem. (The way this works, is I'll copy the files
> > in the repository, then you can remove them from the
> > old location via CVS)
> 
> This way your break the checkout of old versions, because
> all old revisions and tags exist now in two locations.
> The duplicated files probably won't break compilation,
> but it's annoying/confusing to have them around.
> 
> (Try: cvs co -D "1 week ago" glib
>   or: cvs co -r GLIB_1_2_8 glib
>  which have files duplicated in glib/ and glib/glib/)
> 
> While checkout by tag could be fixed by removing the old
> tags in the glib/glib/ subdirectory, checkout by date
> is now broken for everything before the move.

With CVS you have the choice betweeen:

 a) Duplicated files 
 b) Loosing history in the new files.

a) is only "cosmetic", so we choose that evil over b).

Regards,
                                        Owen

[ Waiting for http://subversion.tigris.org/.... ]