[mpich-devel] old old MPICH history now on line

[Rob Latham]

Did you ever run 'git blame' to find out why some part of MPICH does 
what it does, only to find the commit responsible was 6a1cbdcfc42 "Added 
all components in the right places."?  I'm personally surprised how 
often I care about changes made more than 8 years ago.

If you, like me, sometimes find yourself needing more history, you can 
now -- ta-da -- consult http://git.mpich.org/mpich-CVS.git/

When we converted from CVS to subversion back in 2007, the conversion 
tools could not handle some oddities in our CVS repository, 
necessitating a wipeoput of history. I guess in the intervening 8 years 
the conversion tools are more tolerant (once you repack your repository 
to remove any modules-containing-modules).

This is still a disconnected tree from today's MPICH development, but 
now you can browse the old history with the tools we are familiar with 
today (no need to build/install cvsps or remember old CVS commands).

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA