RE: Old versions of GNU Emacs

[Ben Wing]

What was the first version checked into CVS?

> Indeed.  But you can recover them (with a bit of fuzz, tho) 
> by looking at the ChangeLog files (they contain entries like 
> "Version 19.30 released" which give you approximate date and 
> by comparing the entries around that one to the CVS/RCS 
> commit logs of the files, you can get a pretty close 
> approximation.  Note that the 19.34 tag I added is such an 
> approximation).