>>> "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.