20 Dec
2008
20 Dec
'08
9:55 a.m.
>> - remove redundant documentation (although I suspect patches >> involving >> moving files are useless, but Ben hasn't responded on this) > > Such patches should be fine. 'diff' doesn't preserve the history > (you'll > basically get a remove of the old file and an add of the new one) > but I > can quite easily issue the appropriate 'svn mv' to get the desired > effect when applying the patch. Actually, I think the reason that patch is broken is it involves a move which results in what used to be a directory becoming a file. The process doesn't really seem to work on moving directories very well either (it doesn't seem to create the new directories at all), but that isn't such an issue.