Re: Update on the branch surgery

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

Am 27.10.2017 um 22:28 schrieb Eric S. Raymond:

> At leasr part of the problem is this sequence at the beginning:
> 
> c57b183 *** empty log message ***   <--- branch point
> e2e7fb8 Initial import of beta340.
> 
> That top commit is actually an import of 3.6 beta - I'll edit the comment
> to reflect that at some point.  Also that beta 340 is a 3.4.0 beta which
> should swap places with the 3.5 commit.  

That's really 3.6 beta340, one of a rather long series of releases 
called, by their full name, "pre-3.6 beta {number}", or just 
"beta{number}" for short.  These were maintained by Dave Denholm and 
Lars Hecking, in a non-public CVS.   Some important milestones in that 
sequence even got their own "patchlevel" sub-releases.

[BTW, I finally dug through my collection of old HDs and found quite a 
number of them as tarballs, e.g. betas 178, 213, 231, 340 and 347, and 
also an apparently genuine 3.7.0].

Number 340 in that series became the start of our CVS repository, as the 
initial vendor branch import.  Betas 343,344,345,346 and 347 were 
imported onto the vendor branch, then Lars stopped using his private 
repository, so there was no further use of the vendor branch.