Removal of the old build system, partial and preliminary review (part 3)

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Tue Nov 5 14:10:33 UTC 2013


On 2013-11-04 18:47, Phil Race wrote:
> I had this problem recently and I don't think you need restore the 
> files - just the directory.
> I used hg mv to relocate the files but because *all* files were moved out
> of the directory  so hg deleted the directory. It was sufficient to
> mkdir <the-old-dir> again for webrev to properly recognise the files 
> as moved.

Thank you David and Phil. This workaround was indeed something that worked.

However, I wouldn't be in the infra team if I accepted a workaround 
instead of fixing the tool. :-)

With the above understanding, I found and fixed the problem in the 
webrev script. Bug and meta-webrev (!) coming up shortly.

/Magnus



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