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Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir
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In message: <20100307054423.GE70613@dragon.NUXI.org>
            "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
: 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@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.

You are joking, right?  This would be a nightmare for people that
integrate early and often.

Warner