Leo, thanks a lot for your work.
At this point I believe we should go ahead and import the
Git repo into Sourceforge, despite the one messed-up
historical branch, and freeze CVS.
Is anyone opposed to that plan?
Maybe someone can copy your Git/CVS notes to
the Maxima web pages or wiki or something.
Thanks again & all the best.
Robert Dodier
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:24:15 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: CVS/Git conversions for Maxima
To: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Robert Dodier wrote:
< OK, I've enabled the admin bit for you.
< Have at it!
Robert,
I have written up a guide
(see https://github.com/leo-butler/git-cheat-sheet)
and I have tweaked the script that checks
the tags and branches of the converted Git repo
against that of the CVS repo.
At this point, aside from the branch V5, the only
differences appear in the headers of two files
(maxima-font-lock.el and a .ps file). In these two
files the RCS Id tag differs, and that's it.
For V5, there is a huge diff file. The diffs appear
to be in files that are auto-generated by for some
reason under VC. I think that V5 is of historic
interest, but no more.
My proposal is to proceed with the creation of
the Git repo from this conversion. I will commit,
in a separate directory, the diff files produced
during the conversion.
If you want to forward this to the maxima list,
go ahead.
Leo
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