Re: groff in git (was Re: [RFC] input.cpp: Remove use of strncat(3))

[Larry McVoy]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 07:50:37PM -0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> [dropping Alex from Cc]
> 
> On 12/10/22, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks to TUHS, I can dig back even farther than the dawn of our
> > repository's history (groff 1.02) and gaze upon groff 1.01.[1]
> ...
> > [1]
> > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Net2/usr/src/usr.bin/groff/VERSION
> 
> When Eric migrated groff from CVS to git, he included a lot of pre-CVS
> history, and I'm sure would have included this had he known about it
> at the time.
> 
> Eric, can reposurgeon retroactively add an earlier release to git
> without changing all the existing git hashes (which are referenced all
> over the place, in the bug tracker and elsewhere)?  I know nothing
> about how these hashes are generated, so this may be utterly
> infeasible.

I'm a source management guy that has fast-export and fast-import 
and I'm pretty sure there is no way to get what you want.

I'll be impressed if Eric proves me wrong.
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