Hi Achim, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes:
>> On the technical side: does anyone know what incantations needs to >> be done for this? I use git filter-branch (and its --tree-filter >> option) from time to time but I'm definitely not an expert. What >> we want at the end is: > > Rewriting the history so that it stays meaningful will not be easy and > it will lose (or alter) information whenever a file moved between > contrib and core in the past. This is not just a few incantations, you > would have to write specific scripting to do this. Yes -- my experiments show me this so far, it is not easy. So really question the usefulness of the whole move in fact. > I'd rather try to get as much contrib/ as possible into core and then > re-assess what's left. I see your point, but this cannot be done without asking the Emacs developers what they consider being really useful for Emacs. Again, not something that I will have time to do before 8.0. Let's continue to see if this is desirable and possible without too much dirty work, and maybe postpone this after 8.0. -- Bastien
