Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050912340.5181_at_fledge.watson.org>, Robert 
> Watso n writes:
>
>> Doing that kind of rearrangement [...] would be a nightmare for anyone with 
>> large [...] patches, so I'd say we could pretty much rule that out 
>> outright.
>
> I would say that we should do it occasionally, to encourage these FreeBSD 
> users to contribute as many of their local changes back to the project, as 
> possible :-)

Absolutely -- and rearranging a tree is a good way to invalidate all those 
patches as well :-).

It's a trade-off, obviously, but what it does mean is that we shouldn't 
rearrange the tree without thinking about both sides: it's not just the 
aesthetics of a particular layout over another, it's that changes in layout 
come with a less visible but much larger cost than "svn mv".

Robert