On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Philip Martin wrote: > >> The new file must have been explicitly added, rather than copied or >> moved, and so the history is broken. An example of a history preserving > > The issue there is that cvs2svn doesn't / didn't at the time support > detecting moves, so moves from before the conversion to SVN aren't > represented as such.
Ah, so if we rename a file with 'svn rename', its history will be preserved across the rename? In that case, renaming files should not be a problem. > People have talked about wanting to move files to various new > subdirectories of the gcc directory, rather than having so many files all > at the same directory level. I suggest that the time of moving a file to > such a new subdirectory would be an appropriate time also to rename it to > use .cc, rather than having two separate moves. Sounds reasonable. Diego.
