[MPlayer-cvslog] r19341 - in trunk/stream: Makefile asf_mmst_streaming.c asf_streaming.c network.c network.h pnm.c stream_ftp.c stream_netstream.c stream_rtsp.c stream_vstream.c tcp.c tcp.h

[Ivo]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 14:04, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:47:24AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >   8. Renaming/moving files or contents of files:
> >
> >     svn move <source> <destination>
> >     svn commit <source> <destination>
> >
> >     Do not move or rename files before discussing it on the
> >     mplayer-dev-eng mailing list first!
> >
> >     Don't do a lot of cut'n'paste from one file to another without a
> >     very good reason and discuss it on the mplayer-dev-eng mailing
> >     list first. It will make those changes hard to trace.
> >
> >     Such actions are useless and treated as cosmetics in 99% of cases,
> >     so try to avoid them.
> >
> > So maybe this could have been discussed a bit more, but it surely was
> > not forbidden.
>
> r18708 said:
> ------
> 8. Renaming/moving files or content of files, removing empty directories:
>
>   You CANNOT do that. Ask the CVS server admin to do it!
>   Do NOT remove & readd a file - it will kill the changelog!!!!
> ...
> ------
> that IMO means: no you cannot move the content of a file
>
> did i miss the disscussion of the policy change?

I was the person that converted most of the cvs-howto.txt to Subversion 
syntax. I was under the impression that the previous "CANNOT" referred to 
the fact that is was impossible for a user to remove empty dirs etc. with 
cvs and you had to ask the server admin to do that. I replaced it with "Do 
not move or rename before discussing" to avoid having people moving and 
renaming files as they see fit. It was not my intention to change any 
policy that was implied by the previous text. I see now that although both 
lines (You cannot... and Do not..) are right next to eachother, they do not 
refer to the same thing.

Perhaps it is a good thing to establish a clear set of rules and rewrite the 
current text completely, because with Subversion, a user can do basically 
anything (move, rename, delete, readd, etc).

- Do not remove a file and readd it under a different name. Use svn mv 
instead.
- Do not cut 'n paste (large) portions of a file and add it to a new file. 
use svn cp of the whole file and edit both files, so the revision history 
is completely preserved.
- In any case, before ANY copying or (re)moving is done, DISCUSS it on the 
mplayer-dev-eng mailinglist FIRST!

Something like that.

--Ivo