[Xorg] Reorganizing the xc/include directory
Egbert Eich
eich at suse.de
Mon May 17 13:50:04 PDT 2004
Keith Packard writes:
>
> Around 22 o'clock on May 17, Egbert Eich wrote:
>
> > You mean renaming the tags form 'foo' to something like 'premod_foo'
> > would be a disadvantage? After you have moved files I'd expect that
> > you would only diff individual files to see what has changed. So I
> > don't see the big disadvantage here.
>
> Hmm. I do run global diffs across major versions at times, and this
> would break that.
I wonder if this still makes sense once files have been moved.
>
> But, I do like the idea of checking out an older version and not getting
> duplicate files.
>
> Again, I think the question is whether analysis of per-file historical
> detail is more important than getting ancient versions checked out cleanly.
>
> I think we've constructed two systems which can do both, but which prefer
> one activity to the other.
>
> I suppose it really doesn't matter a whole lot to me; as long as we can
> get back to where we started if we need to...
>
OK, shall we get started then and set up a tree on fd.o where we
can play around a little? We need to coordinate things and I guess
IRC would be good for that. I will have to learn to use it - but tonight
it is definitely too late ;-)
Cheers,
Egbert.
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