[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] libswscale into the FFmpeg SVN repo

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 10:55:54PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 10:52:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:44:51PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> > [...]
> > >>> I've never used CVS a lot - what kind of support did it have for moving 
> > >>> stuff between reposes?
> > >> you just copy the rcs files on the server, needs an account or someone
> > >> with an account ...
> > >> what was missing was that this didnt keep track of where the file 
> > >> previously
> > >> was ...
> > >
> > > Oh, like that. Yes, that was pretty neat. It's still perfectly possible 
> > > with SVN though.
> > 
> > only as long as inside the same repo, cvs never had this limitation, a
> > rcs file form one repo can be copied to another like just copying it within a
> > repo
> 
> And then that file magically appears in checkouts from dates before you
> moved the file, great idea.

Thats what i was speaking about, did you read it at all?
What my "suggestion" was, was that each RCS file would also keep track of the
path, not just the file content so past checkouts would not contain the
file in the wrong repo


> 
> Per-file revision control is not a good idea.  What you want to version
> is the whole repository.

thank you, but i know what i want. And the per repo version is why we cant
merge swscale into ffmpeg, with per file we could

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