is there a naming convention for libbb files/routines?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Mar 28 22:10:21 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:31 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Monday 27 March 2006 11:35 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   in some cases, the function name will *not* exactly match the
> > > source file name -- witness the source file "mtab.c" which defines
> > > only the function erase_mtab().  so why not "erase_mtab.c"?  no
> > > big deal, though.  onward.
> >
> > I believe that one used to define more, but I trimmed it.  Didn't
> > rename it because my attempts to do so count as a delete and a
> > create, and thus blank the svn history for the file.  Dunno why.
>
> i'm pretty sure that shouldn't happen.  you did "svn rename"
> explicitly and subversion tossed the history?  that sounds like an
> obvious bug.
>
> rday

Yup.  I've been treating it as a "don't" do that then" for the moment, and 
vaguely planning to try again either with the next Ubuntu release or when I 
dig up FWL and get some time to beat on that. 

Rob
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