Re: Preserving CVS history

On 10/11/2014 01:01, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 09/11/14 21:54, Cesar Strauss wrote:
> If I get a chance, over the next few days, and if I can find
> my old CVS sandboxes, I'll clone these...
>
>> git clone git://git.code.sf.net/u/cstrauss/mingwrt
>> git clone git://git.code.sf.net/u/cstrauss/w32api
>
> ...and check them for consistency; can't promise that I can do better
> than checking, at the appropriate release points, against historically
> released tarballs, though; nor can I promise a quick turn-around.

Thanks. Don't worry, take your time.

>
>> If you agree, I'll publish them both on the MinGW project.
>
> If I don't get back to you, within two weeks at most, please do.
>

I'll wait.

>> Likewise, the ChangeLog of w32api-3.18 ends in 03/25/2011, but the
>> CVS history goes up to 08/10/2012.
>
> I thought our last formal release was w32api-3.17; did Cygwin release
> w32api-3.18, before they started to adopt mingw-w64?
>

Sorry about the typo, I meant w32api-3.17.

>> I suppose these additional commits can be reverted in a subsequent
>> commit, or erased altogether from the master branch, if you find it
>> convenient.
>
> Better to review, and merge as appropriate; it would be a shame to throw
> away potentially useful work.
>

Indeed.

Regards,

Cesar

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