Re: [Boost-build] v2 organization

From: Michael Poole (mdpoole_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-13 08:26:52

Vladimir Prus writes:

> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 01:35, Rene Rivera wrote:
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>> > IMO v2 source code should be separated from other v2-related things by
>> > a level of hierarchy:
>> >
>> >   test/
>> >     ...
>> >
>> >   src/
>> >      kernel/
>> >      tools/
>> >      ...
>> >
>> >   doc/
>> >      ...
>> >
>> > Otherwise, many things are difficult, e.g. searching.
>>
>> Indeed.
>
> Who's gonna submit SF support request to get Boost switched to SVN? I don't 
> fancy another manual-rename-that-disrupts-history.

In my experience, renames under SVN disrupt history almost as badly as
under CVS.  Log messages are preserved, but individual changes are
just as hard to retrieve since the old revision of the repository had
the changes at the old name -- SVN asks for the old revision at the
new name, which usually does not exist and is (almost) always wrong.

Related bugs in their issue tracker:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=895
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898 (the second
comment there is historically amusing)
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2496
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2543

(Just trying to provide fair warning about what you can expect.)

Michael Poole