Re: [Gnucap-devel] gnucap development snapshot 2013-04-23

[Bas Gieltjes]

Hallo Al & Co.,

> half?  more like a quarter, but even so, the real history is in 
> RCS, which doesn't carry over anyway.  It has gotten quite messy 
> over the years.  Those are all factors in my thought of wait for 
> the split, then start clean.
> 
> For the curious ...
> http://www.gnucap.org/devel/gnucap-2010-04-09-RCS.tar.gz
> This one has a restart at the time of transition from C to C++.

I know that there is no definitive choice made for a new revision
control system, but it is possible to move the RCS file history to git.
A search gives several methods to move data from RCS to a new
revision control, if the old commit history is important...

I tried this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619737/migrate-project-from-rcs-to-git
and this mentioned Ruby script (see the typical usage, and example
below): http://git.oblomov.eu/rcs-fast-export
and obtained a revision history for the archive mentioned above. The
(essential?) commit messages are missing and some commits contain a
list of n's, no clue why those n's are  included.

 Bas


 Bas
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