| History log of /src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 |
| Revision | | Date | Author | Comments |
| 1.93 |
| 03-Jan-2025 |
rillig | fdisk: remove unreachable options 'T' and 't', fix lint warnings
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| 1.92 |
| 24-May-2020 |
wiz | Use Nx, fix formatting nit.
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| 1.91 |
| 24-May-2020 |
jmcneill | Add -g flag to preserve GPT headers when updating MBR.
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| 1.90 |
| 15-Dec-2019 |
wiz | Fix xrefs.
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| 1.89 |
| 14-Dec-2019 |
christos | PR/54756: germain: Avoid confusion caused by overuse of the word "file" both
as a noun and an argument name.
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| 1.88 |
| 09-Apr-2019 |
tnn | mention that -B is used to set the timeout for mbr_bootsel
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| 1.87 |
| 27-Jan-2017 |
abhinav | branches: 1.87.12;
Fix spelling of simultaneous.
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| 1.86 |
| 11-Sep-2016 |
sevan | branches: 1.86.2;
- Document the HISTORY of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by
Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2.5 Installation notes [2].
I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared
as I didn't find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo
history. fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this,
I've avoided stating the exact version fdisk first appeared in Mach.
- Make correction pointed by textproc/igor
- Bump date
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.unix.bsd/14-Dec-89$20Robert$20Baron$20(rvb)$20at$20Carnegie-Mellon$20University%7Csort:relevance/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg
[2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps
[3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps
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| 1.85 |
| 04-Apr-2014 |
wiz | branches: 1.85.8;
-s:
If the optional arguments are not provided, they stay as before or
use the same defaults as the interactive mode, if new.
(feel free to improve)
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| 1.84 |
| 04-Apr-2014 |
wiz | Fix a bug in previous and update detailed -s description.
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| 1.83 |
| 03-Apr-2014 |
wiz | Update SYNOPSIS.
Christos, please check.
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| 1.82 |
| 31-Mar-2014 |
martin | Bring back the playstation2 port - now that a toolchain for it is
available again.
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| 1.81 |
| 06-Oct-2013 |
apb | Suggest using -b 1023/255/63 for modern disks where the BIOS is
configured to use LBA-Assisted translation.
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| 1.80 |
| 06-Oct-2012 |
wiz | Revert my previous commit, I misunderstood the intention.
Noted by njoly.
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| 1.79 |
| 05-Oct-2012 |
wiz | Previous slightly more consistently.
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| 1.78 |
| 05-Oct-2012 |
njoly | Fix indented blocks rendering with mandoc. Switch from .in unsupported
macro to .Bd/.Ed ones. While here kill some unneeded .Pp/.br macros.
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| 1.77 |
| 08-Apr-2012 |
wiz | branches: 1.77.2;
Remove unnecessary Bk/Ek pairs from SYNOPSIS.
No effective change except where I used the opportunity to sort options
and/or option descriptions.
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| 1.76 |
| 06-Apr-2012 |
christos | support sector sizes > 512.
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| 1.75 |
| 04-Jan-2012 |
wiz | Remove trailing whitespace.
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| 1.74 |
| 31-Dec-2011 |
riz | According to most other OSes and documentation sources, an MBR has
one "extended" partition and the partitions inside that are "logical"
partitions. Make fdisk(8) man page follow suit.
Patch from Julian Fagir in PR#45695.
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| 1.73 |
| 01-Dec-2011 |
wiz | Remove trailing whitespace.
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| 1.72 |
| 01-Dec-2011 |
christos | Add a flag to support writing overlapping partitions and explain why.
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| 1.71 |
| 25-Apr-2011 |
wiz | branches: 1.71.4;
Use Nx.
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| 1.70 |
| 07-Apr-2010 |
wiz | Minor punctuation fixes, improve and sort SYNOPSIS, sort flag descriptions.
From Bug Hunting in PR 43130.
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| 1.69 |
| 23-Dec-2009 |
dsl | Add info for -A ptn_alignment[/ptn_0_offset]
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| 1.68 |
| 17-Dec-2009 |
pooka | Use implicit -F for regular files, much like disklabel(8).
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| 1.67 |
| 05-Dec-2009 |
pooka | Remove support for NetBSD/playstation2.
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| 1.66 |
| 29-Nov-2009 |
tsutsui | Add a bunch of useful typical examples. Also use appropriate markup there.
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| 1.65 |
| 28-Nov-2009 |
tsutsui | Update -u usage to follow changes in fdisk.c rev 1.125:
>> Allow MB, GB and CYL (not just M, G and C) and lower case.
>> Don't output a splurious 'd' before "cyl".
>> Fixes PR/37414.
XXX "NNcy" is also allowed?
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| 1.64 |
| 28-Nov-2009 |
tsutsui | Clarify description of -f and -u options.
(-u means updating partition data, not interactive mode)
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| 1.63 |
| 14-Oct-2009 |
joerg | Do not use .Xo / .Xc without a good reason.
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| 1.62 |
| 10-Aug-2009 |
yamt | an example.
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| 1.61 |
| 02-Jul-2009 |
snj | Small grammar tweak.
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| 1.60 |
| 01-Jun-2009 |
christos | Delete GPT partitions if we overwrite with MBR to avoid confusion with disks
that have both MBR and a secondary left over GPT partition signature. From
Mike M. Volokhov
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| 1.59 |
| 20-Jan-2008 |
dsl | Note the existance of mbr_com0 and mbr_com0_9600.
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| 1.58 |
| 23-Dec-2007 |
apb | Remove note about the first track being reserved for the BIOS (it's
not), and replace it with a note about the first partition traditionally
beginning in the second track of the first cylinder.
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| 1.57 |
| 23-Dec-2007 |
apb | Report the first active partition.
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| 1.56 |
| 20-May-2007 |
wiz | branches: 1.56.4; 1.56.6;
Plural fix.
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| 1.55 |
| 11-Mar-2007 |
apb | Bump date for previous.
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| 1.54 |
| 10-Mar-2007 |
apb | Document the new checks for whether a PBR is bootable.
Also add more detail in the introduction, and a few
more references.
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| 1.53 |
| 24-Sep-2006 |
wiz | branches: 1.53.2;
Use more macros. New sentence, new line.
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| 1.52 |
| 24-Sep-2006 |
jmcneill | PR# 28660: how to remove bootmenu text from some partition
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| 1.51 |
| 07-Apr-2005 |
dsl | Allow partition sizes to be input in GB
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| 1.50 |
| 13-Jul-2004 |
uwe | s/Nm/Nx/, as it's NetBSD that has ports, not fdisk.
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| 1.49 |
| 13-Jul-2004 |
wiz | Bump date for previous; new sentence, new line;
sort list of ports where fdisk is available.
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| 1.48 |
| 13-Jul-2004 |
darcy | Add note top man page explaining that fdisk is not used on all platforms
and list the ones that is is.
Partial fix to PR#25943
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| 1.47 |
| 22-Mar-2004 |
lukem | Use .Pp instead of .br as appropriate.
(This needs more work)
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| 1.46 |
| 20-Mar-2004 |
wiz | Nm needs no argument; also, correct wrong Nm usage.
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| 1.45 |
| 19-Mar-2004 |
snj | Bump date for last. Use Sq for single quotes. Drop trailing space.
New sentence, new line. Sort xrefs. Fix a spelling error.
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| 1.44 |
| 19-Mar-2004 |
dyoung | Add flag -F, options -t disktab and -T disktype to fdisk. Flag -F
indicates that the target of the fdisk operation is a file, not a
disk. With -t and -T, the user tells fdisk the geometry for the
file If the default geometry that fdisk will "fake up" for a file
are not satisfactory, the user may tell the geometry to fdisk using
-t disktab -T disktype.
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| 1.43 |
| 06-Oct-2003 |
lukem | be consistent about "MS-DOS"
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| 1.42 |
| 03-Jun-2003 |
joda | add missing . before Fl
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| 1.41 |
| 06-May-2003 |
wiz | MBR, not mbr.
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| 1.40 |
| 01-May-2003 |
dsl | Change a couple of .Em to .Ar
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| 1.39 |
| 01-May-2003 |
wiz | Replace some raw roff with mdoc.
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| 1.38 |
| 01-May-2003 |
wiz | Improve formatting for [/bootmenu], requested by dsl; add some commas.
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| 1.37 |
| 01-May-2003 |
dsl | a mbr -> an mbr
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| 1.36 |
| 01-May-2003 |
wiz | Drop trailing space.
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| 1.35 |
| 30-Apr-2003 |
dsl | Rototilled fdisk that supports:
- editing of the extended partition list
- user friendly default start/size for new partitions
- partition start/size input in sectors, cylinders or MB
- bootsel menu names configured with paritition bounds
- partition update loop asks used which partition to change
(instead of asking about each partition in turn).
- detection (and erroring) of overlapped partitions.
- automatic installation of correct mbr_xxx code (after prompting user)
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| 1.34 |
| 25-Feb-2003 |
wiz | .Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.
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| 1.33 |
| 09-Feb-2003 |
wiz | Drop trailing space (in last).
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| 1.32 |
| 09-Feb-2003 |
perry | Slightly clarify/improve the documentation for the -B (boot selector)
option
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| 1.31 |
| 01-Oct-2002 |
wiz | New sentence, new line. By Robert Elz with minimal fixes.
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| 1.30 |
| 26-Mar-2002 |
christos | PR/16073: Jachym _Freza_ Holecek: Add the ability to list known partition types.
While I am here, KNF a bit.
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| 1.29 |
| 05-Mar-2002 |
wiz | Drop duplicate .Pp.
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| 1.28 |
| 08-Feb-2002 |
ross | Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.
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| 1.27 |
| 13-Jan-2002 |
fair | Cross-link fdisk(8), mbr(8), and mbrlabel(8) in the SEE ALSO sections,
as suggested in PR 14288. Also add a little white space to mbr(8) to
make it a little more readable.
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| 1.26 |
| 16-Nov-2001 |
wiz | Whitespace nits
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| 1.25 |
| 05-Jun-2001 |
wiz | Drop arguments of .Os.
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| 1.24 |
| 18-Dec-2000 |
lukem | list the options in a specific options list (as per the `traditional'
man page). i find this much easier to read than option descriptions
scattered amongst paragraphs of text.
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| 1.23 |
| 14-Nov-2000 |
abs | xref (disklabel.8, fdisk.8, mbrlabel.8) as appropriate
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| 1.22 |
| 07-Jun-2000 |
augustss | Note that sysid 0 marks a partition as unused.
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| 1.21 |
| 11-Oct-1999 |
hubertf | branches: 1.21.4;
Add note that "fdisk -i" is the same as "fdisk /mbr" on MSDOS.
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| 1.20 |
| 21-Sep-1999 |
simonb | branches: 1.20.2;
Fix tyop and clean up usage of commas a little.
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| 1.19 |
| 02-May-1999 |
fvdl | Remove confusing entry about cylinder boundaries.
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| 1.18 |
| 17-Apr-1999 |
fvdl | Make the bootselector configurable by fdisk. Add a -B flag to this
effect (i386 only of course). Also change one branch in the
bootselector code to an explicit 16 bit one, and check both
the boot menu and partition tables to see if the partition
requested by the user should be booted. This check just in case,
should the bootselector menu and partition table get out of sync
somehow. (mmm, bytesqueezing)
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| 1.17 |
| 07-Mar-1999 |
mycroft | branches: 1.17.2;
Clean up SYNOPSIS formatting.
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| 1.16 |
| 15-Oct-1998 |
ws | Separate master bootcode from fdisk.
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| 1.15 |
| 28-Sep-1998 |
ws | Automagically initialize boot code and partition table if not yet valid.
Don't touch the partition table on -i, if previously valid.
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| 1.14 |
| 19-Feb-1998 |
drochner | update for new partition ID
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| 1.13 |
| 06-Feb-1998 |
perry | macroize BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and misc cleanup
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| 1.12 |
| 26-Nov-1997 |
ross | Typos, English.
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| 1.11 |
| 14-Sep-1997 |
lukem | branches: 1.11.2;
correct use of various mdoc macros to cleanup resultant man page
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| 1.10 |
| 05-Sep-1997 |
phil | -- add -b flag for setting fdisk's idea of BIOS geometry from command line
-- cleanup so WARNS=1 works
-- man page updated to reality.
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| 1.9 |
| 11-Aug-1997 |
phil | Upgrade for non-interactive use. Interactive use is nearly unchanged.
-i no longer implies -u, -i now does not use the entire first track
because some BIOSes refuse to boot from a partition in the first track.
-s renamed to -S, new -s for non-interactive setting of a partition's
id, offset and size. Updated documentation to match.
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| 1.8 |
| 18-Mar-1995 |
cgd | convert to new RCS Id conventions; reduce my headache
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| 1.7 |
| 23-Sep-1994 |
mycroft | Clean up a bit more.
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| 1.6 |
| 23-Sep-1994 |
mycroft | Clean this up a bit.
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| 1.5 |
| 28-Jan-1994 |
jtc | More spelling errors.
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| 1.4 |
| 14-Jan-1994 |
jtc | Fix spelling errors
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| 1.3 |
| 06-Dec-1993 |
cgd | 386bsd -> NetBSD
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| 1.2 |
| 02-Aug-1993 |
mycroft | Add RCS identifiers, remove some completely useless RCS logs and patchkit
headers, and a few other insignificant changes.
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| 1.1 |
| 09-Apr-1993 |
cgd | added a 386bsd fdisk program, by julian elischer. (patch 111)
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| 1.11.2.1 |
| 27-Nov-1997 |
mellon | Pull rev 1.12 up from trunk (ross)
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| 1.17.2.3 |
| 21-Nov-1999 |
he | Pull up revision 1.20 (requested by simonb):
Fix typo and clean up usage of commas a little.
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| 1.17.2.2 |
| 02-May-1999 |
perry | pullup 1.18->1.19 (fvdl)
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| 1.17.2.1 |
| 18-Apr-1999 |
fvdl | Pull up bootselector mods, as approved by releng.
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| 1.20.2.1 |
| 27-Dec-1999 |
wrstuden | Pull up to last week's -current.
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| 1.21.4.1 |
| 22-Jun-2000 |
minoura | Sync w/ netbsd-1-5-base.
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| 1.53.2.1 |
| 22-Mar-2007 |
jdc | Pull up revisions 1.54-1.55 (requested by apb in ticket #513).
Document the new checks for whether a PBR is bootable.
Also add more detail in the introduction, and a few
more references.
Bump date for previous.
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| 1.56.6.2 |
| 18-Feb-2008 |
mjf | Sync with HEAD.
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| 1.56.6.1 |
| 27-Dec-2007 |
mjf | Sync with HEAD.
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| 1.56.4.2 |
| 23-Mar-2008 |
matt | sync with HEAD
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| 1.56.4.1 |
| 09-Jan-2008 |
matt | sync with HEAD
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| 1.71.4.3 |
| 22-May-2014 |
yamt | sync with head.
for a reference, the tree before this commit was tagged
as yamt-pagecache-tag8.
this commit was splitted into small chunks to avoid
a limitation of cvs. ("Protocol error: too many arguments")
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| 1.71.4.2 |
| 30-Oct-2012 |
yamt | sync with head
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| 1.71.4.1 |
| 17-Apr-2012 |
yamt | sync with head
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| 1.77.2.2 |
| 20-Aug-2014 |
tls | Rebase to HEAD as of a few days ago.
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| 1.77.2.1 |
| 20-Nov-2012 |
tls | Resync to 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC
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| 1.85.8.1 |
| 20-Mar-2017 |
pgoyette | Sync with HEAD
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| 1.86.2.1 |
| 21-Apr-2017 |
bouyer | Sync with HEAD
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| 1.87.12.2 |
| 08-Apr-2020 |
martin | Merge changes from current as of 20200406
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| 1.87.12.1 |
| 10-Jun-2019 |
christos | Sync with HEAD
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