From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rename and clean unexec.c
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqvd7xto79.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zkx9bhhm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 30 Jul 2010 09\:39\:49 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:02 -0400
>>
>> I am not sure why are so opposed to this.
>
> Not "so opposed", just opposed. I'm opposed in principle to every
> cosmetic change that doesn't have a very good reason.
Maintainability is a very good reason. Keeping bad names is not.
> That's because
> such changes obscure real code changes and make forensics harder.
Can you please explain exactly how renaming a file managed by a decent
VCS makes forensics harder?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-30 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 4:38 rename and clean unexec.c Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-28 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-28 19:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-28 20:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-28 22:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-29 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-29 3:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-29 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-29 18:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-29 18:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-29 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-29 21:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-30 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-30 7:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-07-30 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-04 16:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-04 16:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-04 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-04 21:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-05 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-30 9:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-05 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-05 18:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-05 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-29 7:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-28 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-05 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-05 18:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-05 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-13 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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