Improve the history of individual contributions and repositories
The source code has been through a rather complicated journey, and it's occasionally useful to understand this history from CVS to a private Subversion repository to its current location in git. So document this more thoroughly, and ensure that everyone involved is in the THANKS file.
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Stow was written by Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>, Zanshin
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Software, Inc.
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Stow was originally written by Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>,
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Zanshin Software, Inc.
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Contributions from Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca>.
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Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca> made some early contributions.
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John Bazik wrote `fastcwd', the Perl subroutine for computing the
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current working directory.
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current working directory (later removed in 1.3.3).
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Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> wrote the fix to prevent
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stow -D / stow -R removing initially-empty directories.
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stow -D / stow -R removing initially-empty directories (mentioned
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in 1.3.3 section of NEWS).
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Adam Lackorzynski <al10@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote the fix to prevente
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Adam Lackorzynski <al10@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote the fix to prevent
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the generation of wrong links if there are links in the stow directory.
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Stow was maintained by Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org> up to November 2007.
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Stow was maintained by Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org> up to November
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2007. Guillaume originally imported the source code into the Savannah
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CVS repository on 2001/12/24 with the tag "v1_3_2". This history was
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later imported into git as described below.
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Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net> performed a major rewrite
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in order to implement:
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1.3.3 was the last release of the 1.x series. The CVS history
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contains a few commits after 1.3.3 preparing for a 1.3.4 release which
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was never published (see the "import-cvs" tag in git).
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1. defered operations,
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Between 2007 and 2009, a small team of people collaborated on a
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private in-house project on Stow:
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg00003.html
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Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net> performed a major
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rewrite in order to implement:
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1. deferred operations,
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2. option parsing via Getopt::Long,
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3. options to support shared files,
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4. support for multiple operations per invocation,
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6. better cooperation between multiple stow directories,
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7. a test suite (and support code) to ensure that everything still works.
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As these changes required a dramatic reorganisation of the code, very little
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was left untouched, and so Stow's major version was bumped up to version 2.
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As these changes required a dramatic reorganisation of the code, very
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little was left untouched, and so Stow's major version number was
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bumped up to 2. Austin Wood <austin.wood@rmit.edu.au> and Chris
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Hoobin <christopher.hoobin@rmit.edu.au> helped clean up the
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documentation for the new 2.x.y series, and created the texi2man
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script.
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Austin Wood <austin.wood@rmit.edu.au> and Chris Hoobin
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<christopher.hoobin@rmit.edu.au> helped clean up the documentation for
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version 2 and created the texi2man script.
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Kahlil obtained permission to donate these changes back to GNU. The
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Subversion history from this period is no longer accessible, so the
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breakdown of the individual changes to the source code between 1.3.3
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and the unreleased 2.0.2 version have been lost; however some details
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are still visible in ChangeLog.OLD, which also acknowledges the
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contributions of Geoffrey Giesemann and Emil Mikulc.
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Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org> refactored the backend code into new
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Stow.pm and Stow/Util.pm modules providing an OO interface, tightened
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up the test suite, added support for ignore lists, `make test', and
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distribution via CPAN, and cleaned up numerous other minor issues.
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Sometime after this, Troy Will took over maintainership and imported
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the unreleased 2.0.2 code base as the original root commit into
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Savannah git repository.
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On 25th November 2011, Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org> took over
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maintainership. He imported the CVS history into the Savannah git
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repository, grafting it onto the previous root commit imported by
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Troy, and tagged this as v2.0.2:
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg00001.html
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg00002.html
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refactored the backend code into new Stow.pm and Stow/Util.pm modules
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providing an OO interface, tightened up the test suite, added support
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for ignore lists, `make test', and distribution via CPAN, and cleaned
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up numerous other minor issues.
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These changes were included in 2.1.0, which was the first official
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release since 1.3.3 in 2002.
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Stow is currently maintained by Adam Spiers.
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mailing lists and any other communication channels are detailed on the
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above home page.
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Brief history
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Brief history and authorship
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----------------------------
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Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's "Depot" program, but is
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substantially simpler. Whereas Depot requires database files to keep
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never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a Stow
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directory (e.g., `/usr/local/stow/emacs`), so it's always possible to
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rebuild the target tree (e.g., `/usr/local`).
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For a high-level overview of the contributions of the main developers
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over the years, see [the `AUTHORS` file](AUTHORS).
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For a more detailed history, please see the `ChangeLog` file.
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THANKS
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THANKS
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@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Greg Fox <fox@zanshin.com>
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David Hartmann <davidh@zanshin.com>
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Ben Liblit <liblit@well.com>
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Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca>
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Adam Lackorzynski <al10@inf.tu-dresden.de>
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Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
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Fritz Mueller <fritzm@netcom.com>
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Spencer Sun <zorak@netcom.com>
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Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
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Steve Webster <srw@zanshin.com>
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Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net>
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Geoffrey Giesemann <geoffrey.giesemann@rmit.edu.au>
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Emil Mikulic <emil.mikulic@rmit.edu.au>
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Austin Wood <austin.wood@rmit.edu.au>
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Email addresses of new contributors are no longer being added by default
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for privacy reasons; however please contact the maintainer if you are
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happy for your email address to be listed here.
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More authorship and contribution details can be found in the AUTHORS
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and ChangeLog files, and of course also in the git version control
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history.
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