Re: emacs.git mirror status

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > For git, the sole difference between a merge and an import is that the
>     > former has the branch as a parent commit.  All the other history is
>     > reconstructed by git on the fly rather than tracked.  So just
>     > redeclaring the respective CVS checkins
>
>     There are no such checkins.  The history is located only in the various
>     arch trees of Miles and Karoly.
>
> People spoke of the "multi-tty branch".  I presumed that meant a
> branch in our CVS repository.  Is that not so?

Yes.  The multi-tty branch started life at Karoly's arch repo 3½ years
ago, was earlier this year imported into Miles's arch repo, who checked
the result of the merge into CVS as a single commit.

Andreas.

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