Subversion history problem

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Hi Ross,

I was looking through the history of the imported version of jhbuild,
and it seems that the order of the changesets is incorrect.

I ran the command "svn log http://svn.gnome.org/svn/jhbuild/trunk";, and
I was surprised at the ordering of the log messages.  Here are some
selected entries that demonstrate the problem:

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r331 | jamesh | 2001-10-26 07:25:29 +0800 (Fri, 26 Oct 2001) | 5 lines

2001-10-25  James Henstridge  <james daa com au>

        * moduleinfo.py (gnome1): add initial (untested) support for
        building the gnome 1.x platform.

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r323 | jamesh | 2001-10-23 12:39:07 +0800 (Tue, 23 Oct 2001) | 2 lines

my gnome2 build scripts (which a few others wanted to play with).

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r322 | mxpxpod | 1997-01-04 14:18:14 +0800 (Sat, 04 Jan 1997) | 4 lines

2003-09-11  Bryan Forbes  <mxpxfifws yahoo com>

* modulesets/gnome24.modules: Use gnome-2-4 branch of gnome-mime-data

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r321 | jeroen | 1997-01-04 12:04:01 +0800 (Sat, 04 Jan 1997) | 5 lines

2003-09-11  Jeroen Zwartepoorte  <jeroen xs4all nl>

        * modulesets/gnome24.modules: Revert change by Bryan Forbes to make
        glimmer use HEAD instead of the dead new-gtksourceview branch.

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r320 | calum | 1997-01-04 12:04:00 +0800 (Sat, 04 Jan 1997) | 2 lines

Use gnome-2-4 branch for gnome-themes.

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r319 | jrb | 1997-01-04 12:03:59 +0800 (Sat, 04 Jan 1997) | 4 lines

Mon Sep  8 16:35:26 2003  Jonathan Blandford  <jrb redhat com>

        * modulesets/gnome24.modules: Use gnome-2-4 branch

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r2 | jamesh | 1997-01-04 11:59:33 +0800 (Sat, 04 Jan 1997) | 5 lines

2001-10-25  James Henstridge  <james daa com au>

        * moduleinfo.py (gnome1): add initial (untested) support for
        building the gnome 1.x platform.


>From the CVS history, the message associated with r323 is actually from
my initial commit which was made in 2001.

All the commits before r323 appear to have dates in 1997, which is
before I ever created this module (they also have commit dates spaced by
one second, which seems weird).

Looking at the history in CVS, it seems that a few commits _are_ dated
1997, as can be seen here:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/jhbuild/modulesets/gnome24.modules?view=log&logsort=cvs#rev1.60

This probably indicates that the clock on the CVS server was incorrect
for a little while in September 2003, and that incorrect date got
recorded in the CVS history.

Given the corrupt history in this module, I think it would be wise to
check other modules for similar corruption around those dates in their
history before committing to the migration.

James.