[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 <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
>>>> [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.snapshots
>>>
>>> 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