Re: Roundup of GNUPLOT conversion issues

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

On 10/29/2017 11:05 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 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?

I don't think the exact tarballs are there.  I sort of have a 
recollection of whenever a release was to be made, the tarball required 
some extra effort on someone's part.


>>>>> 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.

cvs-fast-export seems to have gotten it right.  This is why I restored 
tags/branches in ./reconvert, to get greater detail.

Dan