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

Mike Duigou mike.duigou at oracle.com
Tue Nov 5 16:52:30 UTC 2013


On Nov 5 2013, at 06:10 , Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

:-)

Mike


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