Re: Have git SHA1 ID's changed in the last 5 years?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

David Kastrup writes:

> Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen <fred> # see note below
>
> but in my repository no commits authored by fred, so this suggests to me
> someone rewriting the history of the repository at some point of time in
> order to get rid of nonsensical author attributions.

Yes, that is what happened.

We only started using CVS in 2002 (iirc) and before that it was tar ball
releases with intermediate, numbered patches per developer, such as

   0.1.1.hwn1, 0.1.1.hwn2, 0.1.1.hwn3 and 0.1.1.jcn1 ...

etc.

The tarball and patches part of history has been re-imported or
re-constructed if you like from tarballs and patches when we
moved to GIT.  

I probably don't remember all the details, but the conversion from CVS
with its (stable/release) branches to GIT, merged with the tarball
history resulted initially in a quite problematic history, that had
multiple "startpoints", none of which was Initial or 0.0.1.

At some point when we were already using GIT for some time, another
effort was made to clean up this mess, together with the unification of
a list of email adressess.

Jan

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