From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910608161020s6855140bs68aaab6e1bbd3bad@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910608180615q4895334bw57c55e59a4ac5482@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910608180650j4542ab09q7daf4250825d3333@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Nicolas Pitre , Shawn Pearce , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 19 21:25:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEWRr-00038L-RV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:25:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751776AbWHSTZc (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:25:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751777AbWHSTZb (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:25:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:57279 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751776AbWHSTZb (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:25:31 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7JJP9nW018833 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:25:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k7JJP8ps031275; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:25:08 -0700 To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910608180650j4542ab09q7daf4250825d3333@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.43 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.94__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.142 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 8/18/06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > I suspect the size reduction is directly proportional to the age of > > > the repository. The kernel repository only has three years worth of > > > data in it. Linus has the full history in another repository that is > > > not in general distribution. We can get it from him when he gets back > > > from vacation. > > > > Maybe you mean > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git > > That one only goes to 2002, the full one goes back to around 1990. I don't actually have such a "full" history. It would be wonderful if somebody took the time to try to piece such a thing together (and git actually makes that a _lot_ easier than some other SCM's, because you can just import random versions in any order, and then re-stich just the commit history when you add a new thing in the middle, without generating any new trees or deltas or anything strange at all). But it's a lot of work. I tried to do a "Linux-Historic" archive about a year ago (and imported some of the old kernels I had), but I gave up, just because it was such a pain to try to do a good job and try to find old release notes etc to import into the changelogs etc. Oh, well. So the only "old" history I have is indeed that BK conversion by Thomas Gleixner. Any pre-BK stuff only exists as patches and tar-balls on various ftp sites (and I don't have any magic repository of my own, so everybody else can do exactly as well as I could, with possibly the exception that I might remember some random details about some old release history - but considering my memory, that's pretty unlikely too. Google is your friend) Linus