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 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> <20070723185732.GB30165@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 23 21:09:07 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 1ID3HG-0002no-Ln for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:09:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763044AbXGWTJB (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:09:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762842AbXGWTJB (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:09:01 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:36559 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762638AbXGWTJA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:09:00 -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 <0JLN004EGBUZKUY0@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca>; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <20070723185732.GB30165@thunk.org> 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, 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