[Biopython-dev] history on github - where are the tags?

[Peter]

>> However, all the tags seem to have associated with them the deletion
>> of the files AUTHORS and Bio/UniGene/UniGene.py which is rather odd.
>> If you can work out how this happened, would it be trivial to back
>> these tags out and redo it?
>>
> That's really odd. I don't know exactly where it comes from, but I've
> done some detective work and here are my findings:
>
> For the AUTHORS  file, it was indeed deleted in a commit by Jeff Chang (2001):
> http://github.com/biopython/biopython/tree/c9dfca8631c23b47bddb519dce9e98d07079eb65
> Which "renames" the AUTHORS file into CONTRIB file.
>
> The AUTHORS file is in the biopython tags prior to 1.00a1 and then it
> should not be there anymore (it's in CVS'a attic)
> I don't know where how it came back...
>
> Similarly, the Bio/Unigene/UniGene.py file was removed by Jeff in a commit:
> http://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/8b940e38d0fbb7c471366f844318c32b08bdd8c2
>
> And similarly, UniGene.py is no longer in CVS repo (but it's still in
> the attic).
>
> What these files have in common, is that there are some commits to
> them after they've been moved to Attic (sic!)
>
> http://github.com/biopython/biopython/commits/master/Bio/UniGene/UniGene.py
> http://github.com/biopython/biopython/commits/master/AUTHORS
>
> I don't know exactly how this could happen, but this inconsistency in
> CVS might be causing cvs2git to actually include these guys.

It does sound like a hidden hickup in our CVS repository... very strange.

Peter