From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:48:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 23 19:48:21 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 1ID211-0007HY-7g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:48:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761030AbXGWRsL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:48:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760793AbXGWRsL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:48:11 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:30068 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760739AbXGWRsK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:48:10 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JLN004OO846KUM0@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca>; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:48:07 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I've been thinking about trying to re-create some really old history > into git, but it's still a lot of work.. And obviously not very useful, > just interesting from an archeological standpoint. 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. Nicolas