Re: New trial conversion

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On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 00:03:51 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Ethan, were all CVS branches originated from the main branch?  Or were 
> some branches rooted from some non-main branch?

So far as I know all branches starting with 4.0 split from the main trunk.
(Although see Hans-Bernhard's clarification that 4.0.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2
were tagged directly in the main trunk before a separate branch-4.0-stable
was created).

I think Lars Hecking is probably the only one with any hope of remembering 
exactly how the version 3.X pieces were handled when they were 
merged to create the SourceForge repository.   I gather from the comments
in the early commits that there were multiple "branches" (maybe not
in the cvs sense but variant sources maintained by different people) that
were merged to set up the repository on SourceForge in 1999(?).
After that it looks like all development happened in a single (main) branch
delineated only by TAGs until the current system of one branch per
stable series was adopted just a little too late to catch the start of
4.0-stable

	Ethan