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On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:35 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Although this would require a request to someone with shell access to |
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> the CVS box, it would preserve all the history of the moved packages. |
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> The loss of history is (IMO) the _primary_ problem of moving packages. |
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I definitely agree. Losing the history really stinks, especially if you |
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have to pull something from the Attic. Not only this, but it affects |
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moves outside of the portage tree, as well. As a good example, |
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livecd-functions.sh was moved from baselayout to livecd-tools. All the |
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history was lost. Luckily, it hadn't changed too much, and the broken |
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part of the script was done by me after the move, so I was able to find |
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it easily, but what if it had been before the move? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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