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.robin...@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. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
