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Joe Peterson wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> I meant moves were largely pointless, although categories are to a |
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>> lesser extent. Tags would be a lot better, since nothing can be |
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>> categorized perfectly into a single place. |
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> Yes, I can see the benefit of a tag paradigm. I, myself, find it more |
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> trouble than benefit to have the extra directory level. I often do "cd |
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> /usr/portage/*/foo" to get to the foo package, and it often gets a hit |
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> in licenses or elsewhere that trips up this practice... |
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>> I don't think it's worth losing track of the CVS history just so we can |
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>> have something in a different place that ultimately is hardly useful to |
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>> anyone. |
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> Ah yes, CVS would present a problem here. I suppose if/when the whole |
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> tree is converted to svn, at that point moves would be more practical. |
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I suppose you mean git. Since it tracks content and not files, moves are |
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trivial. Git actually finds your moves for you, after you've moved content |
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around; such as when doing a bump. |
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> Too bad, though, that this has become a barrier to the ability to change |
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> a category easily and without losing the history. |
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> -Joe |
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Marijn |
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode |
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