From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 05:44:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27A91065670 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:44:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (trang.nuxi.org [74.95.12.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A118FC08 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o275iOd6035872; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o275iNJl035870; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:44:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20100307054423.GE70613@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, paradox References: <3620.1267780989@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, paradox Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:44:25 -0000 On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:41:40AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message , 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@FreeBSD.org)