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Re: [RFA] Rename python files.
- From: Matt Rice <ratmice at gmail dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago dot bauermann at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:28:17 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Rename python files.
- References: <200908132359.32327.thiago.bauermann@gmail.com> <83eirekgy2.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> How should said renaming be done, by submitting and committing a patch which
>> removes the old file and adds a new one, or by moving things around in CVSROOT?
>
> The latter is better, because it preserves the CVS history. ?But 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.