From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29461 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2006 22:56:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 29444 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2006 22:56:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:56:57 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ew5wY-0001YH-En; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:56:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:56:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: Stan Shebs , Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: History before 1999 Message-ID: <20060109225650.GA5940@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , Stan Shebs , Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <8f2776cb0601070913q365de93g8d80a4886050cba1@mail.gmail.com> <43C298BF.6070209@apple.com> <8f2776cb0601091233s1a8b1c69q9f185ca0c121b837@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0601091233s1a8b1c69q9f185ca0c121b837@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:33:20PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote: > On 1/9/06, Stan Shebs wrote: > > In theory, an energetic person could graft old public releases into > > the repository, making a sort of synthetic history. Easier in SVN > > perhaps? > > Insertion of revisions into an existing history, even at the front, > isn't something SVN has any special support for. I think you'd have > to dump, edit, and re-load the repository. However, Ian has some nice hack for stitching CVS repositories together during a CVS->SVN transition - he wrote them to add the old-gcc repository to GCC. I bet we could add the additional history in the process of switching to SVN, if there's interest in doing that :-) I've been thinking on and off about the "modules" problem that I mentioned the last time the idea came up; I think it's not infeasible. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery