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 20:36:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> <46A54406.8020605@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: "H. Peter Anvin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 24 02:37:01 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 1ID8Oa-0000Ds-Q9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:37:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755412AbXGXAg5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:36:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754747AbXGXAg5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:36:57 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:43902 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753860AbXGXAg4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:36:56 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JLN0013OR1JZ6K0@VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca>; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:36:55 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <46A54406.8020605@zytor.com> 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, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with. I > > recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier > > or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some > > patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc. Then the result > > was > > cross checked with summary lists like this one: > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html > > > > This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that > > wasn't always trivial. > > > > Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever > existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux. Indeed, already got those. Nicolas