[dsdp-tm-dev] Moving stuff in the Repository

["Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear TM Committers,

just as a reminder - when you move stuff in the repository,
e.g. making a package "internal", there's two options:

a) you want to keep the history. It's a little bit of effort
   but possible. Then you need to tell me what package should
   go where and I do it for you.

b) You're ok with losing the history. Then you can just do the
   JDT Refactor > Move to... and commit the old and the new
   directories. But PLEASE use a comment for committing that
   references the old place, e.g.

   [123456][refactor] move org.eclipse.rse.services ->
org.eclipse.rse.services.internal

   The benefit of this is that in case you should need the old
   history of a class some time, you can do the following:
    * Look at the history of the class
    * See the comment there and know where it came from
    * Go to the old directory, do Team > Restore from Repository
      ...and voila, you see the old history.

I've personally used (b) for all my moves so far, since I didn't
see any classes with really valuable history - and it's not totally
gone after all. But for that to work, you need to know where it 
came from, so please use the comment accordingly.

Thanks,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm