Re: State of the conversion

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/13/2017 01:48 PM, Ethan A Merritt via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> On Friday, 13 October, 2017 08:56:36 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>  > By the way, while working on this I found a bad date 2206-07-27
>  > in term/lua/ChangeLog.  That probably wants to be 2006; somebody
>  > should fix it.
> 
> There you open a can of worms I'd just as soon leave closed.
> That file no longer exists in the set of files obtained by generic
> cvs checkout. Yes it can be found in the repository as a "dead file",
> but I don't think it's worth my time to go mucking about in the
> graveyard of dead files to correct typos.
> 
> Ethan

What files no longer exist?  The 2206 currently appears in the file 
ChangeLog.1 of the current CVS repository.  If you were to change that 
file, I don't think it would have any ramifications on the git 
conversion.  That date info wouldn't be used for anything.  The 2206 
still appears in the historical repository record; no changing that. 
But again, those dates aren't used for anything in the conversion scheme.

I would say that making any changes to ChangeLog files--typos, dates, 
etc.--is better done before the git conversion than after.  Do we really 
want to be doing such changes under the new git repository?  I can 
imagine regrouping the ChangeLog files, even deleting the ChangeLog 
files if later you think

git log -p ChangeLog | less

is sufficient for searching old ChangeLog mods.  (Can always retrieve 
old ChangeLog files for local use.)  But to be cleaning up ChangeLog 
files that are sort of deprecated under the new source control seems 
odd.  It might be better freezing them at that point.

Dan