From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31150 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2006 18:58:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 31135 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Nov 2006 18:58:13 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su (HELO zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su) (158.250.17.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:58:03 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with spam-scanned (Exim 4.50) id 1GpUd0-0003qe-IC for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:57:59 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1GpUcn-0003qL-QR; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:57:43 +0300 From: Vladimir Prus To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: MI docs: remove historic note Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:58:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200611151735.25903.vladimir@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611292157.37913.ghost@cs.msu.su> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00405.txt.bz2 On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Vladimir Prus > > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:52:31 +0300 > > > > > Please just enclose the text in @ignore..@end ignore, instead of > > > removing it altogether. If no one complains in a couple of GDB > > > releases, we will later remove it. > > > > Why is it better than removing? The text is there in CVS in case we need > > to resurrect it. > > There's no useful way to grep the CVS repository for a version that > had some specific text, especially if you don't remember the text > accurately enough, and there's no record in anything like "cvs > annotate" for when some text was deleted. Checking out version after > version looking for something I remember only vaguely is not my idea > of fun. > > So resurrecting it will not be easy. Therefore, I'd like to be > reasonably sure no one wants it back for quite some time. I hope you > understand and don't object. I certainly don't object -- I was just wondering about the best technical solution. I'll add @ignore later today -- I assume posting a separate patch is not required? - Volodya