From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Splitting gnus.texi
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:46:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070930214639.GA12374@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9odfj3kj3.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
On 2007-09-30 23:34, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 30 2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On 2007-09-26 08:07, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>>> Additionally, splitting destroys CVS annovate (vc-annotoate). I also
>>> see no problem with the size.
>>
>> This doesn't have to be the result of splitting. The files may be
>> 'repo-copied' by one of the CVS admins, creating let's say 3 files:
>>
>> gnus.texi
>> gnus-news.texi
>> gnus-email.texi
>>
>> These files can then be 'trimmed' with a normal commit, and the trimmed
>> text becomes a changeset of its own. This way 'cvs annotate' will still
>> show useful information.
>
> ... but e.g. "cvs ... co -r v5-10 gnus" will create bogus gnus-*.texi
> files. This is a no-no.
Indeed, or someone has to go through the 'copies' and delete the tags
which are no longer relevant. I understand that this is just an "ugly
hack", so let's avoid it if there isn't a very good reason to split
`gnus.texi' :-)
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2007-09-24 17:10 ` Splitting gnus.texi (was: Split man directory) Reiner Steib
2007-09-25 10:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-26 0:23 ` Splitting gnus.texi Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-26 6:07 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-30 20:50 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-30 21:34 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-30 21:46 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2007-09-26 8:55 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-26 18:14 ` Directory doc/gnus in Emacs CVS (was: Splitting gnus.texi) Reiner Steib
2007-10-20 22:33 ` Directory doc/gnus in Emacs CVS Bill Wohler
2007-10-21 9:37 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-21 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
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