Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden> writes:
> > > I presume it's a mistake that you also committed a bunch of what seem to
> > > be temporary files ?
> > Nope.  I figured it would make some sense to provide this data,
> > especially the log of changes I applied as part of the somewhat
> > incomplete merge.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean -- those files seem to merely contain output
> from the "cvs log" command, which could presumably be easily duplicated by
> anyone.  Obviously the annotations could as well.  [If you want that info
> at a particular point in time, you should use "cvs tag" to add a tag.]
>
> So what exactly is the point of dumping it all into files in the repository?

The *.changes files contain notes I added on what was done in the merge 
in case anyone wants to use/check that information in the absence of a 
real merge log entry.  The real merge entry will get generated when the 
pmail*.el files are converted back to rmail*.el files.  The *.annotation 
files were extremely useful during the merge from the branch to the 
pmail*.el files and while I knew/know they can be regenerated it is a 
convenience to have them handy, IMHO.  Again, all of these pmail*.el, 
*.changes and *.annotations files supporting completing the Rmail/mbox 
conversion are temporary and exist in the faint hope that it will make 
it easier to get other developers to help out.  And in no small part 
because I have not worked on this code in years and wanted to have an 
audit trail to help reveal any mistakes I might have made.

-pmr