On Sat, 28 Dec 2019, Jeff Law wrote:
> I believe RCS was initially used circa 1992 on the FSF machine which
> held the canonical GCC sources. But I'm not aware of anyone still
> having a copy of the old RCS ,v files.
See ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases/old-cvs/ for the old repository
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Mark Wielaard :
> Apparently less complete, but there is also
> https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/gcc/
> Which does have some old diff files to reconstruct some missing versions.
There are quite a few ancient preserved release tarballs out there
Here is the list of reconstructable pre-r3 releases as as
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 09:15:53PM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> I don't have a gitlab account, so I'm commenting here.
>
> I believe RCS was initially used circa 1992 on the FSF machine which
> held the canonical GCC sources. But I'm not aware of anyone still
> having a copy of the old RCS ,v files.
> I believe RCS was initially used circa 1992 on the FSF machine which
> held the canonical GCC sources.
Your memory agrees with mine.
Jeff Law :
> I believe RCS was initially used circa 1992 on the FSF machine which
> held the canonical GCC sources.
That year sounds right - it's when I wrote the original vcs.el for Emacs
and a lot of Emacs users who hadn't been usiing version control started to.
Doesn't give us a Subversion rev
On Sat, 2019-12-28 at 03:53 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> In moving the history of a project old enough to have used
> more than one version-control system, I think it's good practice
> to mark the strata. I'm even interested in pinning down the
> RCS-to-CVS cutover, if there's enough evidence
In moving the history of a project old enough to have used
more than one version-control system, I think it's good practice
to mark the strata. I'm even interested in pinning down the
RCS-to-CVS cutover, if there's enough evidence to establish that.
I've added an issue to the tracker about this:
