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Re: Naming directories in web-platform-tests

From: Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:48:08 +0200
To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
Cc: Peter Linss <peter.linss@hp.com>, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>, public-test-infra <public-test-infra@w3.org>
Message-ID: <8A552A4C902742119D4D54633C4858C0@w3.org>
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On 17/04/2013 07:25 , Tobie Langel wrote:
> > Sorry if I wasn't clear in my initial email. I had two goals here.
> > First, gather consensus to enforce consistent naming between the test
> > repo and /TR. And secondly to coordinate fixing incorrect names in
> > the repository, as this will probably hurt mirroring (for those who
> > care about this) and impact open pull requests.
> 
> The names in question all come from before we agreed to use the TR 
> shortnames (either from the initial HTML repo, or from the imported 
> WebApps repo).

Not throwing stones. Just trying to keep my sanity. :) 
> I recommend we switch them now, before there are too many things 
> depending on those URLs.

I'll get a PR out shortly.
> Also, I *think* that git is smart enough to notice that something was 
> moved and merge properly.

Yes. Me too. What about the mirroring with w3c-test.org? Won't that wreck havoc? 
> Worth double-checking though.

Do you have a better suggestions than trying the name change on a single directory and seeing what happens to PR there?

--tobie
Received on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 08:48:17 UTC

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