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Commit 61b292dc authored by Kevin Lyda's avatar Kevin Lyda :speech_balloon:
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More details on the conversion steps.

Really need to record the steps I'm taking. Already rolled
some changes back so clearly this is a mistake-prone process.

So this will live in a "conversion" branch which I'll eventually
use to make a "master" branch (staging each commit with the proper
author attributes and the best commit message I can derive - later
dirs seem to have announcement files so that helps).
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## Creating the BULLETIN source repo (or branch)
Still trying to decide the end result here. I was going to do a separate
source repo but there's a lot of conversion steps I'd like to capture.
So the `master` branch might turn into a `decus2git` branch and then once
the gross conversion steps are done, each tape would get it's own orphan
commit branch (with the correct `GIT_AUTHOR` and commit info metadata).
Something like `tapes/DECUS_TAPE_NAME`. Then the `master` branch would
be created by merging in each tape branch in chronological order.
The BULLETIN git repo is created by a shell script, `mkBULLETIN.sh`
based on edits to the various versions of bulletin that were extracted
from the ZIP archives.
The files in the ZIP archives are not ready in their current state to
make the repo. A number of things had to be done to get them ready for
a proper historical source code archive. The commit logs for this repo
cover those steps, but the following sections explain the steps in
more detail.
a proper historical source code archive. The `conversion` branch tracks
the steps taken to prepare to recreate the historical archive.
Once the `conversion` branch seems complete, I'll start creating
the historical archive.
The subsections below track the major conversion probems encountered
and the steps taken to address them.
### Dependencies
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