Re: [boost] Dependency report

Subject: Re: [boost] Dependency report
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-27 19:06:12

Michel Morin wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
> > In the past I moved headers along with their history by exporting the 
> > commits to a text file and then applying that in the target repo,
>
> After the move, the original file is split into the two files:
> one contains the actual code and the other is for the backward 
> compatibility.
> Did you transfer the history into only one of the two files?

I moved the file as-is from the first repo to the other, as described here:

https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/NewLibByRefactor

Then, assuming the result is include/boost/utility/next_prior.hpp in repo 
iterator, I would rename it with `git mv` to 
include/boost/iterator/next_prior.hpp. This ought to retain history. I would 
then create the new forwarding file with the old name in a separate commit.