Re: RFC: Moving CEDET development to Emacs

Jed Brown writes:
> David Engster <[email protected]> writes:
>>   - We will loose a lot of commit history (it will be only available in
>>     the old repo).
>
> For what it's worth, it's technically possible to keep the history by
> doing a subtree merge, though I don't know whether emacs.git would allow
> that.

Yes, I've considered that. It's not easy because CEDET files are
scattered among the Emacs tree (lisp/cedet, admin/grammars,
etc/srecode). I would have to create a branch which mimics that
organization, use 'subtree split' to split those directories off, and
merge them in Emacs. This would however mean that I'd override those
files with their CEDET history, and we'd loose the Emacs history. I'm
pretty sure that will not be allowed. Also, the CEDET history is really
messy because of all the renames we did, and the commit messages are
often not according to Emacs standards.

-David

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