Re: Change to bzr build instructions

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:24:50 -0400
>> 
>> 
>> The autotools generated files such as configure are no longer present
>> in the repository in the trunk.
>
> Why were these files deleted and then created anew in autogen/?  Why
> not "bzr mv" them instead?  Do we really want to lose their history?

One thing that makes sense about git: moving files is exactly the same
as deleting and recreating them.  History is reconstructed on the fly
when you ask for it and tracks the contents, not the file names (though
they provide starting points for he heuristics).  So you don't depend on
the programmer telling the system how content moved about.

-- 
David Kastrup