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Bob Barry

In the course of trying to compile fpc docs, I compared file msg2inc.pp of svn to that of the fpc-2.0.0 source tarball. No change whatsoever had been made to the code, but all the revision history has been removed since fpc-2.0.0. This means that users will henceforth be unable to know who to thank or curse for the code, or how and when it evolved.

I would recommend that revision history be retained on all source code, so that future users can know whose shoulders they are standing on, and appreciate the difficulties that were encountered along the way.

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Florian Klaempfl
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Bob Barry wrote 6 lines
In the course of trying to compile fpc docs, I compared file msg2inc.pp of svn to that of the fpc-2.0.0 source tarball. No change whatsoever had been made to the code, but all the revision history has been removed since fpc-2.0.0. This means that users will henceforth be unable to know who to thank or curse for the code, or how and when it evolved.

History before 2.0.0 can be found in the old cvs logs. The logs at the end have been removed because it makes automatic merging of branches hell. You can always get the history of a file via
svn log file

I would recommend that revision history be retained on all source code, so that future users can know whose shoulders they are standing on, and appreciate the difficulties that were encountered along the way.

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