Re: Roundup of GNUPLOT conversion issues

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

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> Am 29.10.2017 um 13:45 schrieb Eric S. Raymond:
> >Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>:
> >
> >Does cvs2git get the tip content of 3.7.x right - that is, coincident with the
> >3.7.3 tarball?
> 
> Please note that the tip of the 3.7.* branch is not coincident with the
> 3.7.3 tag or tarball.  Some further changes were made on the branch after
> 3.7.3.

I do not see any in gitspace. How would I retrieve or list them in CVS? 

> The same goes for all of our release branches.  They all received a couple
> more changes after the last release was made from them.  So none of the
> branch tips coincides to any released tarball.  Comparisons really would
> have to be made to cvs checkouts of the branches, instead.

Which just brings up the more general question: how do I see these in CVS?

> >>>1. Drop the 3.7.x branch.  Replace it with a branch consisting of just
> >>>the archived 3.7.[0123] trees in sequence (I now have them all).
> 
> That would be slightly wrong because 3.7.0 is not on the branch.  It's on
> the trunk.

OK. No one has told me where yet, though.
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