awkward placement of some BB header files

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 5:13 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > If you can figure out how to get svn to move files without deleting
> > their #*%&(# change history (which is something it's _advertised_ as
> > being able to do_), I'd be very very happy and would try to figure
> > out how to email you baked goods.
>
> um ... are you trying to do these file moves via a patch?  that could
> be your problem as i suspect a patch shows only that one file is being
> deleted while another file that just *happens* to have the same name
> is being created elsewhere.  if subversion doesn't realize the
> connection between the two, you'll definitely lose the file history,
> and i'm guessing a patch file would cause just that to happen.
>
> you need to use "svn move" or "svn rename" to preserve that history.

I did.

Look at svn 13452.  I did an "svn move" from the command line and it turned 
that into a delete plus an add.

http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/018045.html

Apparently due to the strange way svn works, this should actually have 
preserved the history, but it didn't.  I don't know why.

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-05/1101.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/subusers/archive-2004-08/0119.shtml

Maybe it's a bug in ubuntu's svn tools (if so perhaps it went away when I 
upgraded my laptop from Horny Hedgehog to Flatulent Badger).  Maybe it's a 
limitation in the web viewer.  I dunno.  If renaming stuff can actually be 
made to _work_, I'd like to shuffle all the darn directories around (as I 
mentioned back in January).

http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017984.html

> rday

Rob
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