Re: A plea for volunteers (Fwd: CVS support at SourceForge ends Nov. 30)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 11.10.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Ethan A Merritt:

> I do not know which email address Hans-Bernhard Broeker would prefer
> 
> broeker =  Hans-Bernhard Broeker  <br...@ph... 
> <mailto:br...@ph...>>  Europe/Berlin

My physik.rwth-aachen.de address is gone, and has been for a while. 
I've kept using it as the check-in address out of tradition, mainly.

Please use broeker .at. users.sourceforge.net, instead.

>  > 3. I'm not clear on what ought to be excised from the repo. HBBroeker
>  > mentions dropping the faq module. Someone else (I think Mojca) had
>  > a pre-conversion sript that stripped out some stuff. A set of excisions
>  > you guys agree on - ideally expressed as a pre-conversion script 
>  > modifying the repo - is one thing we need.

Using reposurgeon, the 'faq' module is already excluded because its 
generated Makefile rule for SourceForge inputs only pulls one module at 
a time, so there's nothing to excise.  If anything, this module might 
best be converted independently, and the resulting git repo plunked into 
the new gnuplot git repo, e.g. into docs/old.

>  > there were some files on ther gitspace side that weren't in CVS (probably
>  > due to a botched CVS delete). This needs to be further investigated.

I didn't mention those before because I'm convinced the reconstruction 
is actually better than the original in this case.  There are a date 
range of old tags/branches (BETA_347_980818 ... BETA_349_990114, 
GNUPLOT_RELEASE_3_7_0, GNUPLOT_3_7_0_2 to GNUPLOT_3_7_0_3, and 
GNUPLOT_990126 ... GNUPLOT_990317) for which the reconstructed git repo 
has a subdirectory

	docs/ps

But the comparison didn't find it in its CVS checkouts.  That folder did 
exist between 1998-07-21 and 1999-03-18, then it was copied to 
docs/psdoc, and the original dropped.  So the archives for these files 
are now in

	gnuplot/docs/Attic/ps/Attic/*,v

Looks like CVS can't really cope with subdirectories inside an Attic. 
FWIW, cvs2git also rejects this:

	Directory cvs/gnuplot/docs/Attic/ps found within Attic; ignoring

cvsconvert has effectively the same result: git tags/branches from that 
date range report five gitspace-only files in that folder because CVS 
fails to express files that should have been there.