On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Lars Gullik Bj�nnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Michael Koziarski wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:43:19PM +0000 or thereabouts, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> > On Saturday 16 March 2002 12:57 pm, Angus Leeming wrote: > | [...] > >> > I know that this is childish, but why are the gnome gialogs called > >> > FormSomeDialog? Why not GSomeDialog, etc? > >> > >> Because they are.... I don't mind renaming them, though cvs'll throw > >> out all the history which is annoying. I just took the xforms names > >> and used them. > > > | Well, if Lars was feeling generous he might copy the archive in CVS to > | the new file name and then you wouldn't lose any history. > > You loose history that way as well...
If you copy the RCS archive (filename,v) you keep all the log entries and revisions along the way. So what history do you lose? The first commit after the rename of the file would be renaming the class so the log message there can also record the rename from previous file. > I think renaming should be done by comments in ChangeLog + remove > oldfile + insert newfile. > > Also then we do not have to muck around with a live repository. I'm sure I've read of a cvs command to lock the repository while admin work was being done. Allan. (ARRae)
