From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:50:27 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20041020105027.GA17283@fencepost> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098269533 7141 80.91.229.6 (20 Oct 2004 10:52:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 12:52:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKE4X-0001zp-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:52:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEBv-0000SG-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEAe-0000Le-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEAb-0000Jg-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEAa-0000JO-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:58:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKE31-0005sG-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CKE31-0005V8-Ht; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:50:27 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28653 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28653 On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > And it should be simple enough to move the files around in the > Gnus CVS repository without losing any CVS history if I do it by hand > and is, er, careful. I think. I think this is generally considered a very bad thing to do. It's much safer (if less exciting) to just do the old cvs add+rm thing, and make the first commit log in the new location "renamed from foo". The reason it's bad, as I understand it, is that it essentially changes history; I'm not entirely sure of the all the user-visible repercussions, but I'm not sure I want to find out the hard way... -Miles -- Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen