Re: Roundup of GNUPLOT conversion issues

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

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> >>Only when we switched to automake, dropped all generated files from the
> >>repository, and started using the 'prepare' script instead, did tarball
> >>contents start to be really different from fresh working copies of their
> >>corresponding CVS tags.
> >
> >Can you identify when that switchover was?
> >
> The change to automake happened very soon after the directory structure
> change, on 1999-03-28.  'prepare' exists since 2001-06-09T19:15:55.  The
> drop of auto-generated files was on 2003-01-08 (as per state 'dead' in the
> Attic/,v files, and a commit mail in in the gnuplot-cvs archives).
> 
> The distance between fresh working copies and tarballs really only jumped up
> at the 2003-01-08 step, though.

Thanks.  I figure that where we can verify a tag-for-tag match of the
CVS content with the git content that's the best thing to do, but there
might come up cases where we need to identify a tag location by matching
against tarball content, in which case this will be good to know.
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