Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:44:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, paradox <ddkprog@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir Message-ID: <20100307054423.GE70613@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050940290.5181@fledge.watson.org> References: <3620.1267780989@critter.freebsd.dk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050940290.5181@fledge.watson.org>
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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. 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)
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