From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: Old versions of GNU Emacs Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:12:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <00e401c4cd04$76b54150$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100740389 15014 80.91.229.6 (18 Nov 2004 01:13:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Miles Bader' Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 02:12:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUar2-0001Go-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:12:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUazr-0005Rj-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:22:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUazh-0005Or-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:21:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUazh-0005OR-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:21:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUazh-0005OC-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:21:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.166] (helo=simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUaqd-0002yK-PX; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([67.71.119.192]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041118011231.ZBDZ1623.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id 55D3F37060D; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:12:30 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Ben Wing" In-Reply-To: <00e401c4cd04$76b54150$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> (Ben Wing's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:20:51 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29994 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17015 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29994 >> > How do I get access to the repository? Is there read-only access >> > anonymously? [presumably there's a web site?] >> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs > This worked but there are no tags for anything before 19.34. Indeed. But you can recover them (with a bit of fuzz, tho) by looking at the ChangeLog files (they contain entries like "Version 19.30 released" which give you approximate date and by comparing the entries around that one to the CVS/RCS commit logs of the files, you can get a pretty close approximation. Note that the 19.34 tag I added is such an approximation). Such an approximation is enough for my uses which are usually something like "what was the old behavior" or "was this feature already available in Emacs-19". If you want to reconstruct tarballs that you want to be able to untar+build, it might not be sufficient, tho. Stefan