Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:50:06PM -0300 I heard the voice of
> Marc G. Fournier, and lo! it spake thus:
>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:21:46PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why would it destroy the history? Its easy enough to move the files to a
>>>> subdirectory without losing any history ... hell, we did it when we moved
>>>> JDBC/ODBC out of core, the history was maintained ...
>>>
>>> Can't do that, because if you do the files will disappear in (say) 7.4
>>> releases, and we don't want that, do we?
>>
>> Hrmmm, good point that I hadn't thought of ... unless, of course, we
>> back-patch the build changes ...
>
> That's why you COPY the files in the repo, cvs rm the old locations
> (so they still exist on older tags/branches), and do some surgery on
> the new locations to remove the old tags (though you can't remove
> branches last I checked, without more serious magic; you could go in
> and cvs rm on the branches I guess, which is better than nothing,
> though more work) so they don't start showing up on old release co's.

Actually, simplier yet would be to just 'cvs add' everything in th enew
place, and cvs remove it on HEAD in the old ... the 'cvs add' log entry
should state something like 'moved from ...'

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