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From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Navigating an enormous code base
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:34:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXojg82H9dJJp75CFLqma3hBSeND3j7k1-oxRPAbyqdWwjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <t4djpb$b43$1@ciao.gmane.io>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 4:38 AM Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de> wrote:
>
> Ggtags won't be able to tell if files have been renamed or added, I am
> afraid. (it might notice deletions, though)

That is crucial.  A very large part of my work is untangling
decades of cruft (including migration from C to C++).
I do a tremendous amount of refactoring: moving and
renaming files.  I need a scheme that can handle such
churn gracefully.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-28 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-26  2:31 Navigating an enormous code base John Yates
2022-04-26  6:06 ` Daniel Fleischer
2022-04-26 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 12:53   ` John Yates
2022-04-26 14:06     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-26 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-14  3:47   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-14 17:55     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-27  7:59 ` Marcus Harnisch
2022-04-27  8:36   ` mrf
2022-04-27 16:35     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-27 22:59       ` John Yates
2022-04-28  0:46         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-28  6:42         ` Marcus Harnisch
2022-04-28  7:39           ` Leo Liu
2022-04-28  8:38             ` Marcus Harnisch
2022-04-28 10:45               ` Leo Liu
2022-04-28 14:34               ` John Yates [this message]
2022-04-28 14:45                 ` Marcus Harnisch
2022-04-28 14:30           ` John Yates
2022-04-28 14:40             ` Marcus Harnisch
2022-04-28 14:50           ` John Yates
2022-04-28 16:10             ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-28 16:15             ` Marcus Harnisch

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