[Panel-devel] another "fun" job

[Richard Moore]

Information about deleted files is stored in the Attic folder of the
containing subdirectory under CVS.

Rich.


On 9/9/05, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 09 September 2005 01:16, Wilco Greven wrote:
> > Op dinsdag 06 september 2005 23:01, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> > > a number of the files in kicker refer to the AUTHORS file in the
> > > copyright notice. this is clearly bogus. if code is reused that
> > > references the AUTHORS file in the copyright, it will need to have `svn
> > > log` run over it and the name actual contributors that are also in the
> > > AUTHORS file put in the copyright assignment. *sigh*
> >
> > You will need a VCS forensic expert for that ;-) Do you know whether it's
> > possible to obtain the CVS history of a deleted file? The first CVS log
> > from browserbutton.cpp says: "Split panelbutton.{h|cpp} into separate
> > files." So the CVS history of panelbutton.cpp would be useful here.
> 
> hmm. it seems that this information was lost =( it's almost certainly safe 
> enough to say that Firebaugh, Elter, Wilco Greven, Stefan Nikolaus and
> myself 
> were the ones to touch this file in a meaningful way. it's not necessary to
> 
> list every individual who ever touched the file (we don't do that when 
> keeping proper track of copyright anyways) just those who modified it in a 
> meaningful manner.
> 
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> Aaron J. Seigo
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