From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [DIFFS] Re: Connection to emacs CVS broken ? Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:52:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86wt1kw5rp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4k8xdziuwz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k5xi45h5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17913.45372.941749.353301@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <45F9C5E8.1010700@gnu.org> <87ps7am73r.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <17913.59348.720489.675967@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174010098 24337 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2007 01:54:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:54:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 16 02:54:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HS1ed-0001sl-Im for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:54:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HS1fg-0000SS-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:55:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HS1fd-0000SE-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HS1fc-0000S1-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:55:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HS1fb-0000Ry-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HS1eX-0003ea-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HS1ch-0007I1-Gr; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:52:51 -0400 X-Spook: SWAT White House BCCI bootleg supercomputer SSL Serbian X-Ran: ;.+)mqm(u/"kB$w6OfmQgWXP~Y[W}N"*),_Q!}g*.g*fy|xMww7"RqM"_D(p@}u<'G]UGJ X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67980 Archived-At: So it seems the recovery options are: 1) use NIIMI Satoshi's rsync copy (how does one get one of these, BTW?) to patch the repository. 2) use the recipe suggested on savannah to make a big commit of the missing differences, as per Kim's DIFF mail. http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4793 3) use the emacs-diff and commit mailing lists to re-commit the lost changes (plus a couple of extra ones). 1) messing with the ,v files seems a bit risky to me, regardless of the provenance. 2) would be fine, but loses the original cvs commit logs. 3) I wouldn't mind doing my changes again...