propose: all arch move into a separate dir
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 5 09:41:41 UTC 2010
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003050912340.5181 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert
> Watso n writes:
>
>> Doing that kind of rearrangement [...] would be a nightmare for anyone with
>> large [...] patches, so I'd say we could pretty much rule that out
>> outright.
>
> I would say that we should do it occasionally, to encourage these FreeBSD
> users to contribute as many of their local changes back to the project, as
> possible :-)
Absolutely -- and rearranging a tree is a good way to invalidate all those
patches as well :-).
It's a trade-off, obviously, but what it does mean is that we shouldn't
rearrange the tree without thinking about both sides: it's not just the
aesthetics of a particular layout over another, it's that changes in layout
come with a less visible but much larger cost than "svn mv".
Robert
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