Re: historial question: the first commits (is the conversion screwed?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:18:03 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > > commit ff9c6df4b0766bef72f6b1f4c8fca65737d9ad6b
> > > Author: Jim Blandy <address@hidden>
> > > Date:   Sat Dec 14 16:58:10 1985 +0000
> > > 
> > >     Initial revision
> > > 
> > > What puzzles me, is that there were so few commits when starting the
> > > project and 
> > > 
> > > Jim Blandy <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > redhat in 1985, really?
> > > 
> > > >From wikipedia:
> > > Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters 
> > > 
> > > This is not really a serious issue, but I wondered whether the
> > > conversion process worked reliable, at least for the first commits.
> > 
> > You are looking at a log that was significantly edited by the various
> > conversions, including the email addresses of the authors.  CVS stated
> > just the username, without any email address.
> 
> Here's the same commit from CVS log:
> 
>   revision 1.1
>   date: 1985-04-18 00:48:29 +0000;  author: jimb;  state: Exp;
>   branches:  1.1.18;  1.1.20;  1.1.24;
>   entered into RCS

Sorry, that was the first commit in the repository.  The one above
corresponds to this one:

  revision 1.1
  date: 1985-12-14 16:58:10 +0000;  author: jimb;  state: Exp;
  Initial revision