On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Juancarlo A�ez wrote:
I suppose you could edit history files, but I really would recommend against it.
I've done repository manipulation (moving files around, basically) before for what I think are valid reasons. I always do a full backup first.
In this case, the reason for wanting to manipulate the repository is because
I think that the differencing engine should be split from JRCS. That's
because more people have interest in the engine than in archive
manipulation, and bundling the two libraries makes the engine less visible.
People do do this on the apache servers too. Not with wild abandon, but for reasonable reasons it happens. Your shell account has access to do this.
Usually the 'community' ought to be checked with before doing such a thing, just for sanities sake, but as you're the only active committer on jrcs you represent the sandboxed community.
i should warn everyone that infrastructure team don't like people editing repositories on the ASF servers. it's pretty easy to refactor code out without going onto the server and editing the repositories manually. manually deleting stuff from the repository means that the ASF loses it's permanent record of the code development and that's pretty important.
there are some times that this kind of editing is needed but a polite request to the infrastructure (infrastructure at apache.org) team is the right way to do this.
- robert
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