[Xorg] Reorganizing the xc/include directory

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:32:21PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Keith Packard writes:
>  > We won't be able to use regular CVS commands to actually move the files as
>  > I'd like to preserve CVS history for them.
> 
> Hmm. If you move around files in the repository you will never be able
> to checkout the previous state. 
> The best thing you can do is to add a note to the first commit at the
> new location telling where the file came from. If you have a well defined
> format for this you can even set up a script (cvs wrapper?) that digs
> up the original file.

Keith is suggesting cp, not mv, which works fine.

>  > I suggest that we copy the ,v files into the new location in the
>  > repository.  We can then cvs rm the existing files so that old branches
>  > will still build (but will end up with copies of the files in both places).
> 
> Yes, I thought of this also but it may be extremely awkward. You will
> never be able to restore an older version the way it was.

Um, why not? I don't see how it would cause any problems.

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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