On 02/13/2013 03:06 PM, Diego Novillo wrote: > One problem I've noticed is that renames seem to confuse svn diff. For > example: > > $ cd gcc/cp > $ svn log -r81829 cp-gimplify.c > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r81829 | dnovillo | 2004-05-13 22:29:32 -0400 (Thu, 13 May 2004) | 29 lines > [ ...] > * cp-gimplify.c: Rename from cp-simplify.c. > [...] > > $ svn diff -c81829 cp-gimplify.c > svn: Unable to find repository location for 'cp-gimplify.c' in revision 81828 > > Annoyingly, SVN is perfectly capable of tracking file movement in the > directory structure. > > This may be a problem for archeology. Perhaps the best approach is to > decide for an extension for new files and leave existing files with > the current extensions.
Looks like it. As someone who used to spend a large part of his life on GCC archaeology, I really hope we aren't going to do anything to make that (even more) difficult. Andrew.
