[crossfire] SVN history issues

[Mark Wedel]

On 2/17/21 6:56 PM, Nathaniel Kipps wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:33 AM Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>>    The images may be recoverable - this presumes that the initial import to CVS didn't result in corruption, but rather the CVS -> SVN conversion resulted in corruption.  If the image in questions are in the actual crossfire-arch distribution, versions exist on sourceforge for download that predate the SVN conversion, so it may be possible to download one of those arch distributions and just copy over the pre-corrupted images into the current arch tree and recommit.
> 
> I'm not terribly worried about the images being permanently lost. What
> I'm more interested in is if it's possible to "fix" the history so
> that it's easier to browse in the future. And, if so, is it easier to
> fix it while we're using SVN, or once we move to Git?

  Unless someone has a backup of the CVS repo, I think the CVS commits/rename information is now lost (I looked, and don't have a CVS backup).