Re: New Gnatsweb CVS repository

[Yngve Svendsen <yngve dot svendsen at clustra dot com>]

At 18:07 03.07.2001 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>Would it have been possible, somehow (with cooperation from the gnu.org
>admins) to instead simply import the original CVS tree, i.e., the CVS
>database files containing the *whole* history?
>
>I've done my deal of CVS related work, and I believe this should be
>feasible relatively easily and might be worth giving a try...

I was a bit unsure about the value of doing that. I checked the CVS logs 
and found that none of the 2.x versions of Gnatsweb used the 
sources.redhat.com repository during development. Only release versions 
have been checked in.

It also appears that Bob Manson's changes for GNATS 4.x compatibility were 
checked in in one go, and since then there really haven't been that many 
significant changes on the main branch.

So all in all, importing the whole tree will not provide any more history 
for the 2.x versions and not much more for the 3/4.x development branch, so 
I don't think it's worth it to go through the trouble of doing that.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

(By, the way, I got confirmation from the FSF that Dirk's copyright 
assignments are on file, so I'll probably try to get the patch checked in 
sometime tomorrow)

- Yngve