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Re: Request for policy: regression tests
"Greg J. Badros" wrote:
>
> Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > (Taking bug-guile off the cc list)
> >
> > "Greg J. Badros" wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > It'd be nice to do this inside the repository such that change logs from
> > > guile-modules are preserved in their new place.
> >
> > Do you mean ChangeLog or version history? Previous protocol for merging
> > directories has been to copy the ChangeLog under a new name.
>
> That's not necessary here-- I envision:
>
> guile-core/benchmarks
> guile-core/test-suite
>
> where those two directories are just the two directories of
> guile-modules. The dirs have ChangeLog files, but there is none in the
> top-level directory of guile-modules.
>
> > > Thoughts? It'd be easy for me to move the guile-modules source into
> > > guile-core, but not as satisfying as moving the ,v files around (but
> > > that's exploiting unsupported CVS behaviour).
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure that individual file revision history is that important
> > for tests.
>
> But I don't see why we should dump it unnecessarily, either. There is
> value in those individual ,v files and it's hardly any harder to keep
> that value so we should.
>
How about copying the ,v files then, and cvs deleting the old ones.
That should mostly DTRT. I don't think liking is necessary.
- Maciej