Re: emacs.git mirror status

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     > People spoke of the "multi-tty branch".  I presumed that meant a
>     > branch in our CVS repository.  Is that not so?
>
>     Yes.  The multi-tty branch started life at Karoly's arch repo 3œ years
>     ago, was earlier this year imported into Miles's arch repo, who checked
>     the result of the merge into CVS as a single commit.
>
> In other words, the history before that commit into CVS
> is not in CVS -- is that the issue?
>
> How about putting that history into the ChangeLog files?

Completely useless for using "cvs annotate" and similar.  For git, it
should be possible to import the old arch-like archive (if it is still
to be found somewhere) into a separate branch, and then use a "graft"
for linking it to Miles' large checkin.

For the kind of reverse engineering we need to do on the multitty
branch, namely what went where for what reason, a ChangeLog entry is
not really enough.  We need the actual connection with the code
movement.

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