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Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?)
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Uwe Brauer |
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Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?) |
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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:09:27 +0200 |
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>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> commit ff9c6df4b0766bef72f6b1f4c8fca65737d9ad6b
>> Author: Jim Blandy <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat Dec 14 16:58:10 1985 +0000
>>
>> Initial revision
> AFAIK what you're seeing is the fact that Emacs's sources were not under
> RCS before 1985 (I believe the corresponding commit history is lost) and
> that there was no "email" recorded with users back in the RCS and CVS
> days, so the corresponding identifiers were mapped (somewhat manually)
> to the corresponding email address.
> The closest to the early commit history we have is
> https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history combined with the
> ChangeLog files.
Ah thanks, the Xemacs part is not correct, though. Steve sent the
propose-to-close-down message in 2015 not 2013, and even now, Aidan regularly
pushes changes.
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Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?), Stefan Monnier, 2019/08/17
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Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?), John Wiegley, 2019/08/17