[Zope3-dev] package-includes query

[Tres Seaver]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Tres Seaver]
> 
>>I just ran into this yesterday:
>>
>>   - I had moved a bunch of the "add-on" packages aside in
>>     'package-includes', to verify that things still worked in
>>     that case (e.g., I renamed 'pythonpage-configure.zcml' to
>>     'pythonpage-configure.zcml.aside').  This was essentially
>>     "policy" for my test site, and would be the natural way to
>>     deactivate unwanted features.
>>
>>   - However, those files are under SVN, which means that I (or
>>     somebody else) is likely either to check in such changes,
>>     or else lose their policy choices, inadvertently.
> 
> 
> Tres, I'm not really following this.  Did you use native OS commands to
> move/rename the files, or SVN commands (like "svn move" or "svn rename")?
> If you used native OS commands, you haven't changed anything so far as SVN
> is concerned.

Right.  I am worried that I (as a "typical" committer) might either:

  a) lose my policy choices inadvertently (by running 'svn up', which
     replaces the removed files);

or

  b) check in my policy changes inadvertently (e.g., if I edit the files
     and comment out the '<include>').

Tres.
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