From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Missing file in EMACS_22_BASE (GIT repo)
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:24:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47056821.70608@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jemyuyttse.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Looking closer the situation is more complicated. The file was added to
> the trunk on 2007-06-15, but the EMACS_22_BASE branch was cut on
> 2007-04-27. There is no indication in the RCS file how the file was
> added to the EMACS_22_BASE branch (unlike the emacs-unicode-2,
> multi-tty, unicode-xft and lexbind branches, which have explicit
> revisions for the merges). It looks like the history of the file has
> been modified after the fact, and neither cvsps nor git-cvsimport can be
> blamed here.
>
It was added to the branches by tagging, which is the proper way to do
such things in CVS. It seems it was then deleted from the other branches
and re-added, presumably for the benefit of other revision control
systems with which CVS is synched that have different ideas about what a
branch is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 12:55 Missing file in EMACS_22_BASE (GIT repo) dhruva
2007-10-04 13:04 ` Jim Meyering
2007-10-04 13:09 ` dhruva
2007-10-04 13:33 ` Jim Meyering
2007-10-04 14:07 ` dhruva
2007-10-05 4:28 ` dhruva
2007-10-05 8:01 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-04 16:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-04 22:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-04 22:24 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2007-10-04 23:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-04 23:48 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-05 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-05 9:34 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-05 9:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-05 10:23 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-05 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
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