-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Peterson wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> I meant moves were largely pointless, although categories are to a >> lesser extent. Tags would be a lot better, since nothing can be >> categorized perfectly into a single place. > > Yes, I can see the benefit of a tag paradigm. I, myself, find it more > trouble than benefit to have the extra directory level. I often do "cd > /usr/portage/*/foo" to get to the foo package, and it often gets a hit > in licenses or elsewhere that trips up this practice... > >> I don't think it's worth losing track of the CVS history just so we can >> have something in a different place that ultimately is hardly useful to >> anyone. > > Ah yes, CVS would present a problem here. I suppose if/when the whole > tree is converted to svn, at that point moves would be more practical.
I suppose you mean git. Since it tracks content and not files, moves are trivial. Git actually finds your moves for you, after you've moved content around; such as when doing a bump. > Too bad, though, that this has become a barrier to the ability to change > a category easily and without losing the history. > > -Joe Marijn - -- Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhzlyYACgkQp/VmCx0OL2wQhACfa+iXqTwStNuVC26R9IylNq4r QKMAnjisaTHaqe/Mbu6vMt/waElHgVRb =97k+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
