CVS history prior to 1999

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tue 11 Mar 2014 15:47:33 Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> writes:
> > Is there anywhere I could find CVS history prior to 1999? I believe
> > there was some discussion of this around the time of the git
> > conversion but I don't know if anything came of it.
> 
> It is there, but the sourceware import (commit
> 252b5132c753830d5fd56823373aed85f2a0db63) effectively recreates the tree.
> See:
> 
>     https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-10/msg00268.html
> 
> You need to look behind 1730ec6b1848f0f32154277f788fb29f88d8475b for
> any pre-1999 changes.  FWIW 4a81b56152631cda9dc351cb4d2f61f395ee4414
> is the first revision of bfd.

we should probably add a git note to the current master parent with these 
hints
-mike
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