From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:02:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87k1bcqcky.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="197014"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 17 13:03:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hywUc-000p8d-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:03:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35540 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hywUb-0007BL-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hywTw-0007B3-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hywTv-0000sV-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:02:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:46676 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hywTv-0000ra-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hywTr-000oHE-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:02:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:UwahXbBYa5f6tsIVWQqSBcPArZw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239406 Archived-At: Hi I know that Emacs used various VC systems, RCS, CVS, BZR and finally git. I got interested in the first commits, so I run either git log --reverse Or since I converted the repo to mercurial hg up 1 In both cases I see: ommit ce5584125c44a1a2fbb46e810459c50b227a95e2 Author: Jim Blandy Date: Thu Apr 18 00:48:29 1985 +0000 entered into RCS commit ff9c6df4b0766bef72f6b1f4c8fca65737d9ad6b Author: Jim Blandy Date: Sat Dec 14 16:58:10 1985 +0000 Initial revision What puzzles me, is that there were so few commits when starting the project and Jim Blandy redhat in 1985, really? >From wikipedia: Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters This is not really a serious issue, but I wondered whether the conversion process worked reliable, at least for the first commits. Regards Uwe Brauer