organization

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, 2005-Mar-29 10:50:32 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>A file may be repo-copied to a new location, then removed from the HEAD
>branch in the old location and deleted from the rest of the branches in
>the new location.  This way the history will be there, in both places
>but the file will only 'live' in one place at a time.

At the cost of approximately doubling the repository size -
ncvs/src/sys is currently abut 366MB.  There are an awful lot of
repository copies lying around and even at current disk prices, the
total cost in dollars is non-trivial.

The bigger cost is developer time - kernel developers are familiar with
the current re-organisation.  It will probably take at least a month
for a developer to get used to a new organisation.  Multiply that by
the number of developers and there's an awful lot of lost productive
time.  The new layout would have to offer really good incentives to
have a net benefit.

-- 
Peter Jeremy