[Expo-tech] Gap in dataset, early-mid 2003

[Wookey]

On 2020-04-18 21:58 +0100, Mark Shinwell wrote:
> There is a gap in the various repositories I have between 2003-02-10, the date
> of the last CVS commit, and 2003-07-14, the date of the first svn commit.  I
> have checked what I believe are complete CVS and svn repos, I'm not relying on
> the svn-to-hg conversion (although it looks correct).
> 
> I tried to find out when the Expo 2003 dates were but the logbook page is blank
> on the website.  I wouldn't have thought it would have started much before 14th
> July though.
> 
> I've run out of time this evening, but will be back on this tomorrow.  I am
> currently proposing to simply add a single changeset that contains the changes
> across this gap (see diffstat below, the green plus is the more recent side). 
> If anyone has any better suggestions please shout.
> 
> The prevalence of changes relating to ARGE and the Eishöhle area make me wonder
> if this was some merge of a dataset from ARGE prior to Expo 2003.

Seems quite likely. The arelist ARGE repo I have on this machine goes
back to 2012, so no help. Everything before that was sending over
patches or whole datasets to compare/merge. I might well be able to
find such a sent-over dataset, but would have to dig out some earlier
storage (my main backup machine died so the discs are offline).

It would probably still come as a big lump, so probably not worth
worrying about.

> On another note, there is a certain amount of unwanted material lying around
> (vim .swp files, NFS lock files, processed .3d files, Survex temporary files)
> that I propose to strip out of each changeset.

Sounds good. I have discovered that bfg is two orders of magnitude
faster than git-filter-branch, but also doesn't understand paths so
isn't much use for non-unique leafnames inluess you dig out the blob ID
yourself and do it that way.

Wookey
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