From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?)
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:09:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9uvpydk.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv4l2g0xar.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
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>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> commit ff9c6df4b0766bef72f6b1f4c8fca65737d9ad6b
>> Author: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>> Date: Sat Dec 14 16:58:10 1985 +0000
>>
>> Initial revision
> AFAIK what you're seeing is the fact that Emacs's sources were not under
> RCS before 1985 (I believe the corresponding commit history is lost) and
> that there was no "email" recorded with users back in the RCS and CVS
> days, so the corresponding identifiers were mapped (somewhat manually)
> to the corresponding email address.
> The closest to the early commit history we have is
> https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history combined with the
> ChangeLog files.
Ah thanks, the Xemacs part is not correct, though. Steve sent the
propose-to-close-down message in 2015 not 2013, and even now, Aidan regularly pushes changes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-17 11:02 historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?) Uwe Brauer
2019-08-17 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 13:37 ` Uwe Brauer
2019-08-17 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-17 16:09 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2019-08-17 18:30 ` John Wiegley
2019-08-17 18:34 ` Uwe Brauer
2019-08-19 15:07 ` Jim Blandy
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