From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rename and clean unexec.c Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83hbjjcxex.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk33pdpf.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aapbcoqs.fsf@gnu.org> <838w4vc7gs.fsf@gnu.org> <834oficgpf.fsf@gnu.org> <8339v2c9ea.fsf@gnu.org> <83zkx9bhhm.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280475469 1624 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2010 07:37:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 09:37:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OekA6-000392-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:37:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OekA6-0006zm-1k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43614 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oek9t-0006yx-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oek9s-0004MF-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48496) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oek9s-0004M9-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oek9q-00006b-UH; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:37:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83zkx9bhhm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 30 Jul 2010 09\:39\:49 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128002 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Dan Nicolaescu >> 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?