On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:41:40AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > 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 :-). No, not it isn't. Provide a script to convert path's in the diff. This is what $LARGE_FREEBSD_USER did when it rearranged it source tree. It was done by creating a copy of the CVS repo and moved files around. Old releases stayed in the old repo, and new releases done from the new repo. 'diff | fixpatch | patch -p0' were used to move code between sandboxes. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Sun Mar 07 2010 - 04:44:24 UTC
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