Re: Missing file in EMACS_22_BASE (GIT repo)

[Jason Rumney]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Looking closer the situation is more complicated.  The file was added to
> the trunk on 2007-06-15, but the EMACS_22_BASE branch was cut on
> 2007-04-27.  There is no indication in the RCS file how the file was
> added to the EMACS_22_BASE branch (unlike the emacs-unicode-2,
> multi-tty, unicode-xft and lexbind branches, which have explicit
> revisions for the merges).  It looks like the history of the file has
> been modified after the fact, and neither cvsps nor git-cvsimport can be
> blamed here.
>   


It was added to the branches by tagging, which is the proper way to do
such things in CVS. It seems it was then deleted from the other branches
and re-added, presumably for the benefit of other revision control
systems with which CVS is synched that have different ideas about what a
branch is.