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From: "Philip Paeps" <philip@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: When were the stable and release branches actually created?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:44:40 +0800
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On 2020-06-09 01:35:10 (+0800), Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> Is there a record of when these things actually happened? Do I need to 
> trawl through newvers.sh for all of these?

I was going to suggest "check the re@ archives".  Unfortunately they 
only go back to 2013.

Perhaps someone who was on re@ before then still has the archives in 
their mailbox.

We also have archives of the cvs commits mailing lists.  They might shed 
some light.

Philip

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