Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

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.

It's nasty, but it works.

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