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 15:06:09 -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 21:06:23 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 1ID3EX-0001tQ-BB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:06:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762638AbXGWTGM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:06:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762472AbXGWTGM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:06:12 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:28068 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755630AbXGWTGK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:06:10 -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 <0JLN00AH3BQ9F480@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca>; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:06:09 -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: > > > 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