Re: [Xorg] Reorganizing the xc/include directory

Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 22 o'clock on May 17, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > 
 > > You mean renaming the tags form 'foo' to something like 'premod_foo'
 > > would be a disadvantage? After you have moved files I'd expect that
 > > you would only diff individual files to see what has changed. So I
 > > don't see the big disadvantage here.
 > 
 > Hmm.   I do run global diffs across major versions at times, and this 
 > would break that.

I wonder if this still makes sense once files have been moved.

 > 
 > But, I do like the idea of checking out an older version and not getting 
 > duplicate files.
 > 
 > Again, I think the question is whether analysis of per-file historical 
 > detail is more important than getting ancient versions checked out cleanly.
 > 
 > I think we've constructed two systems which can do both, but which prefer 
 > one activity to the other.
 > 
 > I suppose it really doesn't matter a whole lot to me; as long as we can 
 > get back to where we started if we need to...
 > 

OK, shall we get started then and set up a tree on fd.o where we 
can play around a little? We need to coordinate things and I guess
IRC would be good for that. I will have to learn to use it - but tonight
it is definitely too late ;-)

Cheers,
	Egbert.