From: Matthew Martin <phy1729@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Pre vcs versions of zsh
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:33:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHmgM6B18iiHU4wP@CptOrmolo.darkstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <743736982.232366.1618582982509@mail2.virginmedia.com>
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 03:23:02PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > On 16 April 2021 at 15:08 Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > Stephane Chazelas wrote on Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:59 +00:00:
> > > 2021-04-15 18:56:03 -0400, Eric Cook:
> > > [...]
> > > > If i find more versions i'll add them to my account and reply to this thread.
> > >
> > > Beside the ones you already have, I also have:
> >
> > I'm happy to grab all these onto zsh.org for archival. If y'all could
> > send me a list of wget / git clone commands that'd be much appreciated ☺
> >
> > > Also note that file modification times as stored in tar files
> > > sometimes being useful information from an archeological PoV.
> >
> > +1
>
> Hmm... once they're publicly available in one place (I'll be downloading them
> for backup anyway if they go in the usual place on the website), it's not THAT
> much work to create the equivalent of a vendor branch in git and dump in these
> versions one by one, with some creative use of dates in the commit log, if anyone
> is interested.
>
> As it's pre-vcs, I don't think any fancy branching would be needed, just a linear
> record.
It is possible to add those versions to the history using git replace.
I'd be happy to do that; just need to agree on what author and commit
name and dates to spoof.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-15 22:56 Eric Cook
2021-04-15 23:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-16 0:31 ` Eric Cook
2021-04-16 1:11 ` Ray Andrews
2021-04-16 5:59 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-16 6:18 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-16 14:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-16 14:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-04-16 14:33 ` Matthew Martin [this message]
2021-04-16 18:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-16 19:35 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-04-16 15:03 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-16 16:06 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-16 16:51 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-16 17:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
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