[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles?

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2012/10/4 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
>>> I am not siding with either side of the change yet, but an additional
>>> argument against is that history may become less convenient to
>>> navigate and track (e.g. hg annotate may lose information depending on
>>> how the split is done).
>>
>> If new files are created using "hg cp unicodeobject.c
>> unicode/newfile.c", the historic is kept.
>
> Yes, but you can only create one file that way.

You can create multiple files this way.  I just verified it.  But the
problem happens with merging.  You will create merge conflicts in the
deleted portions of every split file on every merge.  There may be a
way to avoid this that I don't know about though (i.e. to record that
merges into the deleted portions should no longer occur).

--Chris