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 -- [email protected] mailing list
