[beports] Re: deleting information (WAS Re: [RFC] Patch for gnulib's stdbool.h)


Am 25.05.2008 um 11:25 schrieb Brecht Machiels:


Hello,

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 16:31 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:

Please review and ack the following small patch against dev-libs/
gnulib [1]. GNU gnulib is a Git source code repository, from which
This patch has been committed today. I'll remove it from SVN later on.
I think it might be helpful to keep patches like this in the repository. 
They can be a very good reference when porting other software.
Well, we don't need it in trunk, and it would be overridden with any future patches there.
Do you mean they should be moved to a tag, if yes which naming conventions do you suggest? In this case it was a Git commit, so maybe use the commit ID, something like dev-libs-gnulib-0123456? In that case the order would be unpredictable as such hashes . 
SVN tags are usually unstructured... (and it's not a branch)
It's still in SVN after being deleted on trunk, just not as accessible. We could add a link to the last revision from the Wiki, that would be the best solution I see. 


Old PortLog entries
should not be deleted either.
I haven't; I've even changed my mind on removing info on outdated Haiku revisions, but we do need some way to keep the Port Log entries readable... Maybe the Wiki allows strike-through text? 

Andreas
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