xemacs repo: a lot of anonymous branches: evolve: add named branches

[Uwe Brauer]

   > Hello, Uwe.
   > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 18:47:02 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:


   > It's also a project which, while maybe not yet pushing up the daisies,
   > is not in the rudest of health, either.  


I know :'(  I contributed for several years to one of their package and
I recall very vividly the death message of Steven Turnbull.

   > (For non-native English speakers, it's nearly dead.)

Nicely put ;-).




But there seems an attempt to recover (at least there are commits every
second day or so, although better not to tell how many contributers
do commit.....)



   > So why spend time and effort on such a non-vigorous project?  I'm
   > curious, too.

In this particular case: I had an very old (non official) patch, which I
needed to apply every time I wanted to compile the whole beast. So at the
end I got curious and searched for the version the patch was against.

Well and then I discovered the mess and became, let's put it this way,
academically interested in the question.


Uwe 
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