From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:06:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231432560.6355@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231057480.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> 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.
That's what I used when available, especially to properly time stamp
those commits. Using the latest date on files included in the archive
isn't always reliable.
OK so actually what I have is from v0.01 up to v1.0 creating 93 commits.
What is missing is:
- v0.02 sources
- v0.10 announcement
- v0.96 sources
- v0.99.12 announcement
- sources for v0.99.13{abcdefghij} (got k, don't know where the serie
ends) as well as announcements for all of them
- all announcements for v0.99.14{a-z} except for pl14r
- announcements for pl15c to pl15j, 1.0-pre1, and ALPHA-1.0.
Otherwise the archive appears fairly complete with almost 3 years of
Linux development history captured in a 3MB pack file.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-22 20:49 Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Jon Smirl
2007-07-22 21:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-22 21:13 ` Paul Mundt
2007-07-22 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-22 22:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-22 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-22 23:26 ` Michael Tharp
2007-07-23 0:17 ` Jon Smirl
2007-07-23 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 17:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 19:06 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-07-23 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 20:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 23:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-23 23:46 ` Al Viro
2007-07-23 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 0:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-24 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 0:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-20 20:09 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-08-20 20:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-19 1:19 ` Oleg Verych
2007-07-23 18:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-23 19:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 20:22 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-23 0:00 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-19 19:24 ` Git tree for old kernels Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-20 17:16 ` Josef Sipek
2007-08-20 17:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-20 18:01 ` Josef Sipek
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