Re: Update on the branch surgery

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> 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].

On the one hand, that 3.7.0 would be interesting - might help us tag the
corresponding point in the repository.  On the other hand, I'm not getting
a good feeling from Dan's reports on his attempts to disentangle that branch.
We know it's corrupt - doesn't have the right tip state.

I'd be just as happy to drop it at this point

Sigh...you should probably sent us both copies of 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.

Except it seems to have become confounded with the 3.7.x branch we have.
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