Extending the Wings history

When you initially clone the Git repository for Wings, the revision history will
go back to August 18, 2006, which is the day when Wings first was committed
to Subversion.

It is possible to extend the revision history to go back all the way to August 14, 2001,
which is first version of Wings committed to CVS. (The Wings history before that is
probably lost in the mists of time.)

To extend the history using the method described below, you must have
Git 1.6.5 or later. If you have that version, you can download and connect
the extended history by using this command:

git fetch git://github.com/bjorng/wings.git '+refs/replace/*:refs/replace/*'

About 5 Mb of data will be downloaded.

If everything went well, the last lines of output from

git log | tail

will be

commit 1646af0738967f06376da0747cac797b66468087
Author: Bjorn Gustavsson <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Aug 14 18:16:30 2001 +0000

    Initial revision

If you see a commit from August 2006, something has gone wrong.
Double-check that you have Git 1.6.5 or later.

If you all want to import tags for all releases, use this command:

git fetch git://github.com/bjorng/wings-history-2001-2006.git '+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

About 325 Kb of data will be downloaded.