Re: Some small code-restructuring issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Some small code-restructuring issues
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Msg-id 20060620181718.GY26882@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: Some small code-restructuring issues  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Some small code-restructuring issues  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > libpgport (ie, move 'em to src/port).  Moving them would lose some CVS
> > history but would probably be the cleanest thing in the long run.
> > Comments?
> 
> Time to consider something other than CVS...?  In the end, personally
> I'd rather have it be cleaner than the history.  There are ways to
> preserve the history though, if it's a huge concern, even with CVS...
> It's just ugly...

Every hack to the repository makes it more difficult to get it to
migrate cleanly to something else.

A workaround of sorts would be to mention the origin of the files being
moved, so that an interested person can look it up via the Attic.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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