Re: Original commit history for gfortran

[Janus Weil <janus at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

Hi Christopher,

> We're in the process of considering contributing to gfortran for a
> special project, but when we started to vet the codebase we hit a bump
> in lack of commit history.

what exactly do you plan to contribute?


> I've hit a wall at
> commit #1 was: "Thu May 13 06:41:07 2004" - "Merge
> tree-ssa-20020619-branch into mainline."
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/branches/tree-ssa-20020619-branch/gcc/fortran/
>
> Am I mistaken or all the commit history previous to this is lost?

well, I'm not an expert in gfortran history, and I was not involved
with the project at the time it was born, but the initial commit on
the tree-ssa branch seems to be this one:

http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=69825

by Paul Brook in July 2003. The log message says: * gcc/fortran: New front end.

As you noted already, the front end was merged into GCC trunk in May 2004:

http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=81764

I assume r69825 was a more-or-less direct fork of g95, so you probably
won't find any commit history earlier than that ...

Cheers,
Janus