From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:54 -0700 Message-ID: <46A54406.8020605@zytor.com> References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 24 02:16:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ID84o-0004pz-Rj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:16:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759316AbXGXAQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:16:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758870AbXGXAQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:16:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57779 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755411AbXGXAQa (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:16:30 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-67-169-144-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.144.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6O0CuLT002421 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:56 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6O0CuKR021792; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:56 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6O0CtHf029400; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:55 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3745/Mon Jul 23 14:01:34 2007 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with. I > recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier > or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some > patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc. Then the result > was > cross checked with summary lists like this one: > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html > > This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that > wasn't always trivial. > Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux. -hpa