On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:38:30AM +0200, Alexander Pohoyda wrote: >> Egbert Eich wrote: >> > CVSROOT: /home/x-cvs >> > Module name: xc >> > Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/06/20 06:15:33 >> > Log message: >> > - moving xkbcom/geometry/HP to xkbcom/geometry/hp doesn't seem to be >> > possible as CVS doesn't allow a directory to have the same name as >> > a deleted file. >> > Added files: >> > xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/HP/: >> > Imakefile hp omnibook > >I have developed the omnibook geometry and I have a new geometry for >the DELL Inspiron laptop. I'm not submitting the latter because I >would not like to see a new directory DELL there. >Why should some company names be capitalized and others not? > >Would it be possible to fix this issue on the repository side? I mean >manually delete files `hp' and `dell' and create directories instead?
As has already been discussed, deleting these files from the repository makes it impossible to check out previous releases in their correct form. [I thought I already sent the following, but I haven't seen it come through.] Since XFree86 is a cross platform project, I think we need to avoid conflicts that affect platforms with case-insensitive filesystems. Since CVS doesn't allow directories with the same name as files that have existed at any time, that means that we can't create directories like this. So far, the best solution I can see is to remove the 'HP' directory from the repository. That will only impact the history of the last few snapshots. I think that's preferable to affecting the history of releases going back to 3.3. Unless someone comes up with a better solution, that's what I'm planning to do. Is there a reason why the extra geometry descriptions couldn't be added to the original 'hp' file instead of putting them in separate files in a subdirectory? XKB should allow multiple descriptions per file. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
