Re: git repo

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

> > > > > "Guy" == Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:
    Guy> Unless I'm missing something, a lot of the history seems to
    Guy> have gotten lost.  For example, "git log pcap-bpf.c" shows:

    >> commit a9ff5b3dcf3eb90f519c70b4be5cd202190b6ce9 Author: Michael
    >> Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> Date: Sun Nov 9 17:57:45 2008 -0500
    >> 
    >> replaced CVS/RCS $Header tags with non-active version, leave the
    >> strings in, and SCCS what tags.
    >> 
    >> commit a46e7e14dbce2eab3ac7383049f09cb52e7b4ed4 Author: guy <guy>
    >> Date: Tue Sep 16 18:43:02 2008 +0000
    >> 
    >> Only set the cleanup and set/get nonblocking mode handlers to the
    >> zerocopy handlers when we decide to use zerocopy mode.  That
    >> means they don't need to check whether zerocopy mode is being
    >> used.

    Guy> so it appears to have lost about 8 years of history.

    Guy> It looks as if it might have just grabbed the checkins on the
    Guy> libpcap_1_0 branch, rather than on the main branch. 
  
  Hmm. That may be what happened.
  I will look at this again next week.

  The tree is currently accurate against the 1.0/4.0 releases, so we are
up-to-date for now.

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