From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Verych Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:19:55 +0200 Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department Message-ID: References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> Cc: Nicolas Pitre , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: Linus Torvalds X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S1752112AbXISBEe@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 19 03:04:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXnzZ-0006mB-T5 for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752112AbXISBEe (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:04:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750780AbXISBE0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:04:26 -0400 Received: from barikada.upol.cz ([158.194.242.200]:48684 "EHLO barikada.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750774AbXISBEZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:04:25 -0400 Received: from flower (flower.upol.cz [158.194.64.22]) by barikada.upol.cz (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A67F9869A5; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flower (flower.upol.cz [158.194.64.22]) by barikada.upol.cz with ESMTP id AECDzgjV8IYhGEG9; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from olecom by flower with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IXoEN-0007aE-1D; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:19:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: slrn + jed (x86_64-pc-linux-glibc-debian) X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-glibc-debian Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:02:39 -0700 (PDT) > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> I started this once. >> >> I have (sort of) a GIT tree with all Linux revisions that I could find >> from v0.01 up to v1.0.9. But the most interesting information and also >> what is the most time consuming is the retrieval of announcement >> messages for those releases in old mailing list or newsgroup archives to >> serve as commit log data. It seems to be even arder to find for post >> v1.0 releases. > > Yes, I agree. Google finds some of them, but (a) I was never very good > about announcements anyway and (b) there's nothing really good to search > for, so it's very hit-and-miss. > > Some of the really early release notes are easy to find, just because I > made them available with the sources, but mostly I'd just have posten to > the newsgroup/mailing lists. Maybe this can be useful somehow: ftp://ftp.shout.net/pub/users/mec/kcs ____