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Re: Details for svn test repository
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:22 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Joern RENNECKE wrote:
>
> > While you are at re-arranging what's in the repository... could you also
> > include the pre-egcs RCS versions in the converted archive?
> > As it is now, when you want to understand what a piece of code is doing
> > there, you sometimes just hit a wall when you come to version 1.1 .
>
> The trouble with including old-gcc like that is that old-gcc (GCC2)
> development continued for a couple of years after EGCS started. So the
> versions in old-gcc up to the snapshot from which EGCS started could
> reasonably count as going immediately before version 1.1 of the EGCS
> files, but subsequent versions in old-gcc either couldn't be included in
> this way or would need to be transformed into a branch (separate, of
> course, from the vendor branch in the current repository into which some
> versions of old-gcc were imported and which appears in the svn
> repository as branches/gcc3).
>
Oh, i wasn't aware of this.
The only way to properly do this then is to just hack up the rcs files
with the old-gcc data, where approriate, and increment all the other
revision numbers.
Trying to shoehorn this into the converter would be mayhem :)