Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How to rename a category?

[Michaeljohn Clement]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:47:45PM -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> Renaming a category is changing history.

It doesn't have to be.

> You're changing what revision $FOO was called when it was checked in; 
> that's part of its history.

Projects morph.  The continuous history of the code is bound more 
tightly to our conception of the identity of a project than the name.  
It would be nice if arch mapped current names onto an arbitrary, static, 
and non-semantic namespace.

> Now, if you want to just do this for future revisions, that's a whooole
> different kettle of fish. Tag from foo--dev--0.1 to bar--dev--0.1, and
> create a new branch foo--new--0.1 (or foo--dev--0.2, or whatever). Now,
> you have the correct names for future work, but you haven't changed the
> past.

Almost good enough, but then when I check out foo--dev--0.1 (actually 
just foo--0 in this case) in a couple months when I need it again, I'm 
going to have a Monty Python moment until I remember what happened.  I'm 
pretty insistent about limiting the number of things I have to remember.

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