Re: [Cvs-dev] cvs features for gnu savannah

[Conrad T. Pino]

> From: Cvs-dev On Behalf Of Mark D Baushke
> 
> Thorsten Glaser <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Conrad T. Pino wrote:
> > 
> > > I volunteer to archive CVS top-of-tree into separate 
> branch and then 
> > > revert specific ChangeLog commits to bring CVS top-of-tree into a 
> > > state ready to accept new commits for a future 1.12.14 release.
> > 
> > Please *DON-1òùT* rewrite history like this. We can find other 
> > solutions-1ó¦ such as developing 1.12.14 and up on a branch.
> 
> I agree with this. Please do NOT rewrite history. We can 
> always commit forward the reverse diffs to unwind the history 
> if we really need to do it that way. However, we probably 
> will want to tag the top-of-tree main.trunk as a 
> memorial-derek-price-tag. It was as far as he got with trying 
> to have signed commits for the FSF folks that commissioned the work.

Understood and accepted. Call upon me for assistance as wanted.
I can turn the CVS wheels provided I am given clear direction.
If written requirements are wanted, I can draft those as well.

I want to understand FSF signed commits commission after next release.

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> Conrad T. Pino write:
> 
> > 1) At this time everyone seems to agree CVS top-of-tree (MAIN) is
> >    unacceptable having incomplete changes no one wants to 
> complete; GPLV3+
> >    in particular.
> 
> The current state of the top-of-tree main.trunk does NOT have 
> any GPLv3+ code in it as yet. Work stopped before the GNULIB 
> update to GPLv3+ had as yet commenced.

Thank you.

> I suggest that there be a normal tag taken to mark the state of cvs
> 1.12.13.1 which was the main.trunk with some manner of 
> tagname. This would allow someone to later create a branch at 
> that point and work forward on Derek's design if they so desired.
> 
> That said, there is much in the 1.12.13.1 which I found very 
> useful and we may wish to revisit in the future.
> 
>   * The sanity.sh script was much improved over what was used by
>     1.11.23.
> 
>   * The commit triggers flexibility was better in general. Sadly, the
>     commitid code while very desirable was never made into a 
> first-class
>     database tracked token.
> 
>   * Some of the CVSNT features were shared between the two projects.
>     (e.g., :extssh:)
> 
>   * The FreeBSD 'blame' synonym for 'annotate'
> 
>   * Some of the mmap enhancements.

I'll include such in ChangeLog examination across the branches.

> SOme of the things not done, but would be nice if they could 
> be done include upgrading the 'diff' implementation baseline 
> (from 2.7 to 2.8.1).

Understood and thank you.

Conrad