From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs.git mirror status Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:01:53 +0200 Message-ID: <858x753k4u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87y7f9n06z.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87sl5hmz2t.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <86zlzpr663.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86r6l1qzp1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86ejh1qxie.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190008943 24596 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2007 06:02:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , jim@meyering.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 17 08:02:21 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 1IX9gb-0002Jr-58 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:02:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IX9gZ-0002IZ-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IX9gW-0002I9-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IX9gW-0002Hs-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IX9gW-0002Hp-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IX9gR-0008H8-Gp; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03E427B6CA; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:01:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEFA28EDD0; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:01:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-059-150.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.59.150]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973A7292B61; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:01:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3342B1CDAC0C; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:01:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 16 Sep 2007 20\:21\:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4305/Sun Sep 16 22:18:51 2007 on mail-in-07.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:79085 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > People spoke of the "multi-tty branch". I presumed that meant a > > branch in our CVS repository. Is that not so? > > Yes. The multi-tty branch started life at Karoly's arch repo 3=BD ye= ars > ago, was earlier this year imported into Miles's arch repo, who check= ed > the result of the merge into CVS as a single commit. > > In other words, the history before that commit into CVS > is not in CVS -- is that the issue? > > How about putting that history into the ChangeLog files? Completely useless for using "cvs annotate" and similar. For git, it should be possible to import the old arch-like archive (if it is still to be found somewhere) into a separate branch, and then use a "graft" for linking it to Miles' large checkin. For the kind of reverse engineering we need to do on the multitty branch, namely what went where for what reason, a ChangeLog entry is not really enough. We need the actual connection with the code movement. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum