Re: Git repository, was Re: doc branching

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > I have some more clues now; some of the time stamps in the CVS repo are 
> > messed up; eg revision 1.2 of flower/include/GNUmakefile lists 2002 as 
> > the year which is clearly wrong.
>
> Most definitely this would trigger a "bug" in cvsps. I say "bug", because 
> really, there are no changesets in CVS, and cvsps just tries to guess 
> which revisions belong together by looking at the timestamp and the commit 
> message.
>
> That date is definitely wrong (since the next file revision, 1.3 is in the 
> year 1998 again). It is not only misleading cvsps, but it actually makes 
> the repository less useful. I wonder how you can make that happen, though. 
> It is not like I can edit the date of a file revision with CVS (unless I 
> edit the ,v file).

We started using CVS with version 1.5.24, end of 2001. The earlier 
history has been recreated artificially by importing tarballs with a 
script. Something went wrong during this process, apparently.

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