Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Preserving CVS history

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

Hi Cesar,

On 23/10/14 22:06, Cesar Strauss wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> On the ChangeLog of the legacy branch of mingw-org-wsl, you wrote:
> 
>> 	* w32api: New directory; use w32api-3.17-2 release as baseline for
>> 	import; once again, original CVS history is NOT preserved.
> 
>> 	* mingwrt: New directory; use mingwrt-3.20-2 release as baseline
>> 	for import; original CVS history is NOT preserved.
> 
> The authoritative CVS repository for mingwrt and w32api seems to be:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/viewvc/src/winsup/mingw/
> https://cygwin.com/viewvc/src/winsup/w32api/

Those are web view references; I don't think they represent actual
(current) CVS repositories.

> What do you think of importing the full CVS history as two separated git 
> repositories? It could be for historical purposes or even for starting 
> again from a clean state.

If it's possible, it may be worthwhile.  However, if you look at the log
messages on the HEAD commits, (as seen through the commit graphs for any
of the files), they suggest that the actual CVS directories have been
deleted.  I don't do git, so I don't know if it can import CVS history
from a web view representation of a defunct repository; perhaps you know
better?

-- 
Regards,
Keith.