Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:49:04 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, ddkprog@yahoo.com Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir Message-ID: <20100307.144904.1125936742922092260.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100307054423.GE70613@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <3620.1267780989@critter.freebsd.dk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050940290.5181@fledge.watson.org> <20100307054423.GE70613@dragon.NUXI.org>
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"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
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