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On Saturday 02 July 2005 02:49 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:35:01PM -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'd like to address this item separately. |
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> The history is NEVER lost in a package move in the current fashion. |
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> It's just split into multiple locations - it's a bit harder to look |
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> back through it, but it isn't lost in any way. |
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umm, that is until someone thinks it's a good idea to delete old stuff |
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case in point, wtf is app-games in gentoo-x86 ? we split all the games |
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packages into games-* categories but we lost all the history because |
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app-games is now gone |
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-mike |
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