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Date:      Wed, 4 Mar 2020 14:32:06 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-git@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More FreeBSD repo oddities - commits as root
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 2:20 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 1:00 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> One other oddity that came up during git conversion experimentation is
>> that there were a number of commits in 1993 (in CVS) done as root.
>>
>> delphij@ provided this list:
>> > Affected svn revisions:
>> > 282, 281, 238, 119, 90, 89, 88, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 36
>>
>> For the git migration I don't think we want to do anything special
>> with these - just leave them as root, as we did in svn. If any folks
>> who were involved in 1993 know who did this work it would be
>> interesting to note it, but I can't imagine it's worth trying to
>> revise the history.
>>
>
> I'll make inquiries.
>

phk thinks it was most likely jordan, with second most likely as Rod and a
super distant third as David G, though that's starting to get very unlikely.

I've sent email to rod and a facebook message to Jordan. The commits are
https://pastebin.com/8trChU8v for a while...

Warner



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