From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:59:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507021459.49508.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050702184936.GC10840@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
On Saturday 02 July 2005 02:49 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Although this would require a request to someone with shell access to
> > the CVS box, it would preserve all the history of the moved packages.
> > The loss of history is (IMO) the _primary_ problem of moving packages.
>
> I'd like to address this item separately.
>
> The history is NEVER lost in a package move in the current fashion.
> It's just split into multiple locations - it's a bit harder to look
> back through it, but it isn't lost in any way.
umm, that is until someone thinks it's a good idea to delete old stuff
case in point, wtf is app-games in gentoo-x86 ? we split all the games
packages into games-* categories but we lost all the history because
app-games is now gone
-mike
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 22:35 [gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies Donnie Berkholz
2005-06-29 13:57 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-07-02 18:47 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-07-02 23:42 ` Aron Griffis
2005-07-03 1:55 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-07-02 18:49 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-07-02 18:59 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2005-07-04 22:41 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-07-05 1:34 ` Mike Frysinger
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