On 09/01/2015 08:11 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
>> Renaming the files during the conversion is clearly *not* the right
>> thing to do: it would break all builds of old code.
>
> Indeed. Ideally the tree objects in the git conversion should have
> exactly the same contents as SVN commits, and so be shared with the
> git-svn history to reduce the eventual repository size (except where there
> are defects in the git-svn history, or the git conversion fixes up cvs2svn
> artifacts and so some old revisions end up more accurately reflecting old
> history than the SVN repository does).
Actually, I did not propose to alter the repository history. I just meant to
say that
if .c -> .cc renaming is still planned, it could be done right after
conversion, as a
normal commit, or, perhaps series of commits on trunk and active development
(feature) branches.
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Regards,
Mikhail Maltsev
