From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:22:37 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20041020105027.GA17283@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098271424 12533 80.91.229.6 (20 Oct 2004 11:23:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 13:23:38 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 1CKEZ8-00044W-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEgV-0000Mg-GK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEgN-0000MZ-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEgM-0000MI-Vi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKEgM-0000Ls-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKEYD-0001gd-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKEYD-00008y-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:22:41 +0200 Original-Received: from iwi190.iwi.uni-sb.de ([134.96.72.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:22:41 +0200 Original-Received: from angeli by iwi190.iwi.uni-sb.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:22:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: iwi190.iwi.uni-sb.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9jUt/1Purnue1yesFnroeJ4nuHw= 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:28654 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28654 * Miles Bader (2004-10-20) writes: > 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... Why don't you just dump CVS and switch to a different version management system which supports these kinds of operation? When preview-latex will get integrated in AUCTeX we will probably have to move and rename many files as well and it is a pity that we are stuck with CVS due to Savannah not providing alternatives. -- Ralf