Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Rename lxbios to nvramtool

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 28.01.2008 04:14, Corey Osgood wrote:
> Corey Osgood wrote:
> > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > > On 27.01.2008 01:53, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> > > >
> > > > [080126 01:50]:
> > > > > causes lots of breakage when you try to go back to versions
> > > > >
> > > > > before the
> > > > > rename (try it with coreboot v2!)
> > > >
> > > > Tried it, worked fine for all renamed files and directories. Are you
> > > > confusing this with CVS, maybe?  I suggest
> > > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
> > > > for all people with problems regarding the repository.
> > >
> > > I know that page very well and followed its instructions to the letter:
> > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.tour.history.html#svn.tour.history.sn...
> > >
> > > Just in case you don't believe me that it will not work for the v2
> > > tree,
> > > here are the steps to reproduce:
> > >
> > > # svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2
> > > [...]
> > > Checked out revision 3084.
> > > # cd coreboot-v2/
> > > # svn up -r 3049
> > > svn: Target path does not exist
> > > # svn --version
> > > svn, Version 1.4.4 (r25188)
> > >
> > > Full typescript attached.
> > >
> > > Can anybody show me a typescript where going back to revision 3049
> > > works? Please also include the version of svn you used.
> >
> > Odd, I can confirm that doesn't work (exact same svn version, on
> > debian lenny, ubuntu 7.10, and opensuse 10.3 x86_64), but doing svn
> > diff -r 3000 works fine. Looks like an svn bug.
>
> OTOH, svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2 -r 3000 works
> as expected, except that externals are the latest version.

Indeed. That's why I wrote that I have to keep multiple trees. One
checkout with the revision during checkout set to something before the
rename, the other checkout is current.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel