On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Trevor Saunders <tbsau...@tbsaunde.org> wrote: > Hi! > > To be clear I only want to talk about gcc/**/*.c but *not* testsuite/ > > The Question of changing from .c to a more standard C++ file extension > has come up a couple times. I believe its reasonable accurate to say > the consensus is moderately in favor of doing this at some point. The > biggest concern was of course being able to access pre rename history > easily. I know git will either handle this by default or with an option > depending on the command, and svn claims it can handle renames so we > should be good on that front. The other question was if we should wait > to do this at the same time as a reorganization of directory structure. > That was back in august 2013, about a year and a half ago, and we > haven't done it or really moved forward with a plan to do it. It seems > to me that if we do this part now we can then deal with moving files > into directories later piece by piece and not need to move everything at > once. If we want to go ahead with renaming we should pick a time, I > think some people have advanced the idea of doing it just after a > branch, on the other hand last year we held off on the big gimple > refactoring until after the branch had released a .1. > > thoughts?
I see no value in doing this but making branch maintainance awkward. Richard. > Trev
