From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"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 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231507040.6355@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070723185732.GB30165@thunk.org>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:55:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I actually tried to get something like this together back in the BK days
> > and early in the SCO saga. It was pretty painful to try to find all the
> > historic trees and patches - they're all in different format, and some of
> > them are unreliable (ie CVS imports by people like Ted).
>
> Um, *I* never had the bad taste to import Linux kernels into CVS. :-)
>
> I'm pretty sure we never had anything like that on tsx-11.mit.edu, either.
Well, I remember having to clean up some of the source archives I've
found which contained CVS directories. Can't tell which one anymore,
but they were amongst the oldest ones.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 19:09 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
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 [this message]
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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