On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:14 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote: > >>> The first good svn version is apparently 541; the prior commit 540 had >>> the log message "reorganizes py code". >>> This was when we moved "matplotlib" to "lib/matplotlib" which I >>> thought svn would handle gracefully. Any gurus have any idea if that >>> early history is hidden somewhere in the bowels of svn? >> >> That was probably back when matplotlib was still using CVS, right? >> Does the CVS repository still exist? > > I found a mailing list thread from Feb 2006 debating the switch from > CVS to SVN, so yes, apparently I did the re-org while we were still on > cvs which is why the history was lost. It may not be worth it, but I > wonder if the matplotlib history from before the move to lib/ could be > stitched back in. Stitched in from where? The jdhunter branch appears to only contain one commit, so it only contains the contents of matplotlib/ for rev4.