[m-dev.] digital archaeology

[Peter Wang]

On 2011-05-10, Paul Bone <pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:16:33PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> > I have converted, for my own use, the `mercury' CVS module into a git
> > repository.  Including all the branches, the whole project takes 46 MB,
> > about the same as compressing the RCS files with bzip2.  You may find
> > browsing the history interesting, which is much more accessible than
> > with CVS.
> > 
> >     /home/mercury/wangp/mercury-conversion-2010-07-26.tar
> > 
> > Here are some notes, which might be useful in the future:
> > 
> > * I used the `git cvsimport' tool, which calls cvsps.  I needed to
> >   hack cvsps to increase the maximum log message length.
> 
> Hi Peter, could you send me your cvsps?
> 
> > * the files compiler/common.m,v and bytecode/Attic/bytecode.c,v are
> >   corrupted.  I edited the former until rcs doesn't choke (with minor
> >   data loss), and deleted the latter.
> 
> Can you send me the hacked common.m,v or a diff between it and how it was before you hacked it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I'm going to give this a crack.
> 

That would be a great help!  Attached two patches.

Peter
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