Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:14:28 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > commit ff9c6df4b0766bef72f6b1f4c8fca65737d9ad6b
> > Author: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 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 <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> You are looking at a log that was significantly edited by the various
> conversions, including the email addresses of the authors.  CVS stated
> just the username, without any email address.

Here's the same commit from CVS log:

  revision 1.1
  date: 1985-04-18 00:48:29 +0000;  author: jimb;  state: Exp;
  branches:  1.1.18;  1.1.20;  1.1.24;
  entered into RCS