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Re: glibc git tags
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
>>> Here is the list of tags that are broken, together with the commit they
>>> are supposed to point to:
>>
>> Sigh. Does everyone concur that this list is complete and correct?
>
> Note that I didn't bother to check the snapshot tags (which IMHO could
> be deleted without loss of information).
>
>> Now I am suspicious of all the cvs conversion stuff.
>
> Don't blame the cvs conversion. The repository was already pretty much
> f***ed up to begin with (too many invalid direct repository
> manipulations).
Notice how Andreas' adjustments induce only small changes
in the dates. I.e., they moved tags to nearby change sets. I suspect
that those correspond to manual movement of tags in cvs, sort of like
what happened recently.