1. A significant portion of the advice is independent of any
specific version-control sytem.
2. Doing the rename now means it is easier to compose a multi-file
patch that can be applied to fix the tree on the day of the git move.
* admin/notes/lel-TODO: Remove. This has not turned out to be a
useful way to get things documented.
* admin/notes/exit-value, admin/notes/iftc: Remove.
These don't seem to have any particular relationship to Emacs development.
* notes/exit-value: Remove specific discussion of VMS.
* doc/emacs/programs.texi (Program Modes): Don't advertise VMS DCL support
any more.
* doc/misc/ediff.texi (Merging and diff3): Don't mention lack of support
for VMS diff, we no longer support VMS.
* lisp/progmodes/ada-mode.el:
* lisp/net/tramp.el (tramp-handle-file-symlink-p):
* lisp/net/tramp-ftp.el (tramp-ftp-file-name-handler): Remove a comment
about VMS, which we no longer support.
* lisp/progmodes/ada-xref.el (ada-xref-current): Remove mention of VMS,
and fix a FIXME, using convert-standard-filename in place of
removed ada-convert-file-name.
* lisp/url/url-handlers.el: Remove a comment about VMS, which we no longer
support.
* INSTALL: Prefer './configure FOO=BAR' to 'FOO=BAR ./configure'.
* INSTALL.REPO: pkg-config is no longer required to build from
the repository.
* autogen.sh: Don't check for pkg-config.
(progs): Remove pkg-config.
(pkg_config_min, AUTORECONF_ENV, env_space, ACLOCAL_PATH):
Remove. All uses removed.
* m4/pkg.m4: New file, built by admin/merge-pkg-config.
* configure.ac: Remove unnecessary m4_pattern_forbid of ^PKG_ and
an AC_ARG_VAR of PKG_CONFIG_PATH. pkg.m4 does that for us.
(EMACS_CHECK_MODULES): Remove workaround for old pkg-config bug,
as we use pkg.m4 from a newer pkg-config.
* admin/merge-pkg-config: New script.
* admin/notes/copyright: Update for m4/*.m4, in particular m4/pkg.m4.
* etc/NEWS: Prefer './configure FOO=BAR' to 'FOO=BAR ./configure'.
* etc/PROBLEMS (Build-time-problems): Remove pkg-config problem
that is no longer an issue.
* nt/INSTALL: Remove no-longer-needed notes about pkg-config.
These are old copies of online information that is not Emacs-specific.
* etc/CENSORSHIP, etc/GNU, etc/LINUX-GNU, etc/THE-GNU-PROJECT, etc/WHY-FREE:
Replace contents with pointers to www.gnu.org or emacs.info, mark obsolete.
* src/callproc.c (init_callproc): In etc, look for NEWS rather than GNU.
* lisp/startup.el (fancy-startup-text):
* lisp/help.el (describe-gnu-project): Visit online info about GNU project.
* doc/emacs/help.texi (Help Files): Update C-h g description.
* doc/misc/efaq.texi (Informational files for Emacs): Do not mention etc/GNU.
* admin/notes/copyright: Remove references to these files.
* etc/MACHINES, etc/NEWS.19: Replace references to these files.
The class of problems that this was designed to detect, namely .elc
files getting corrupted by being passed around by email via uuencode
or somesuch, has not been a relevant concern for many years.
* lib-src/test-distrib.c, lib-src/testfile: Remove.
* lib-src/Makefile.in (DONT_INSTALL): Remove test-distrib.
(test-distrib${EXEEXT}): Remove rule.
* make-dist: Do not distribute lib-src/testfile.
* admin/quick-install-emacs (AVOID): Remove testfile and test-distrib.
* INSTALL, etc/PROBLEMS, admin/notes/unicode:
Remove references to test-distrib and testfile.
RCS -> CVS -> Bzr -> Git. And (as Stefan Monnier reports) "GNU Arch
was semi-officially used for a while between CVS and Bzr, tho not for
the main branch."
