From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15099 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2009 15:28:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 15087 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Aug 2009 15:28:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f219.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f219.google.com) (209.85.217.219) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:28:19 +0000 Received: by gxk19 with SMTP id 19so5311507gxk.0 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:28:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.32.17 with SMTP id f17mr10799825ybf.75.1251214097563; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:28:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83eirekgy2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <200908132359.32327.thiago.bauermann@gmail.com> <83eirekgy2.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: <8ba6bed40908250828t8e6b44cv14af8402927da584@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFA] Rename python files. From: Matt Rice To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2009-08/txt/msg00416.txt.bz2 On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> How should said renaming be done, by submitting and committing a patch w= hich >> removes the old file and adds a new one, or by moving things around in C= VSROOT? > > The latter is better, because it preserves the CVS history. =A0But I > think it requires special privileges on the repository. > fyi I believe that by moving things around in the CVSROOT the changes will not be automatically picked by the cvs/git conversion.