Re: Missing file in EMACS_22_BASE (GIT repo)

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Looking closer the situation is more complicated.  The file was added to
>> the trunk on 2007-06-15, but the EMACS_22_BASE branch was cut on
>> 2007-04-27.  There is no indication in the RCS file how the file was
>> added to the EMACS_22_BASE branch (unlike the emacs-unicode-2,
>> multi-tty, unicode-xft and lexbind branches, which have explicit
>> revisions for the merges).  It looks like the history of the file has
>> been modified after the fact, and neither cvsps nor git-cvsimport can be
>> blamed here.
>>   
>
> It was added to the branches by tagging, which is the proper way to do
> such things in CVS.

The file didn't exist yet when the EMACS_22_BASE branch was created.

> It seems it was then deleted from the other branches and re-added,

This is done automatically by CVS when merging a new file from a
different branch.  This makes sure the file is marked dead before the
merge.  This revision is missing for the EMACS_22_BASE branch.

Andreas.

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