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

[Bartek Wilczynski]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> I assume you've updated your cron job so this will happen
> automatically in future (e.g. when we do Biopython 1.50 beta).

Yes, naturally.

>
> 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.

I'll increase the verbosity of the log messages in my cron script, so
Maybe I'll see some indication of a problem.

If nobody has a reason for these files to be included in the current
trunk, I'll go ahead and remove them from git.

cheers
Bartek

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