From: Francois Romieu Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:08:17 GMT Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Message-ID: <20050416150816.GA4943@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20050416131528.GB19908@elte.hu> Ingo Molnar : [...] > the history data starts at 2.4.0 and ends at 2.6.12-rc2. I've included a > script that will apply all the patches in order and will create a > pristine 2.6.12-rc2 tree. 127 weeks of bk-commit mail for the 2.6 branch alone since october 2002 provides more than 44000 messages here. The figures are surprisingly different. > it needed many hours to finish, on a very fast server with tons of RAM, > and it also needed a fair amount of manual work to extract it and to > make it usable, so i guessed others might want to use the end result as > well, to try and generate large GIT repositories from them (or to run > analysis over the patches, etc.). Has anyone already compared the (split/digested) content of the ChangeLog file with the commit messages ? It raises the interesting question of inserting the merge messages/patches in the sequence at the right place but I'd like to know if someone met other issues. -- Ueimor