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Re: MI docs: remove historic note
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> > 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