When did 4.8 fork and where was it forked from ?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 30 September 2012 17:30, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 30 September 2012 17:26, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to find out when 4.8 forked and where it actually forked from ?
>
> It didn't, there is no 4.8 branch yet.
>
>> This information does not seem immediately available.
>
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline for release branches that
> do exist. 4.8 will be added to it in due course.

If it did exist, you could look in svn to see when the branch was
created, e.g. for the 4.7 branch:

http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/branches/gcc-4_7-branch/

The first file there shows the branch was created by rev 184777 which
was created from rev 184776:
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=184777