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From: | Marcus Harnisch |
Subject: | Re: Navigating an enormous code base |
Date: | Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:45:11 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 |
On 28/04/2022 16.34, John Yates wrote:
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 4:38 AM Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de> wrote:Ggtags won't be able to tell if files have been renamed or added, I am afraid. (it might notice deletions, though)That is crucial. A very large part of my work is untangling decades of cruft (including migration from C to C++). I do a tremendous amount of refactoring: moving and renaming files. I need a scheme that can handle such churn gracefully.
Actually, as Leo has pointed out, the gtags program should be able to notice *unless* you are using a fixed list of files like me.
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