Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:41:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, paradox <ddkprog@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050940290.5181@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3620.1267780989@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <3620.1267780989@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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 :-). It's a trade-off, obviously, but what it does mean is that we shouldn't rearrange the tree without thinking about both sides: it's not just the aesthetics of a particular layout over another, it's that changes in layout come with a less visible but much larger cost than "svn mv". Robert
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