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Re: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 16, 2005, 17:43 UTC
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Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:04:31PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...

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> So I'd _almost_ suggest just starting from a clean slate after all.  
> Keeping the old history around, of course, but not necessarily putting it
> into git now. It would just force everybody who is getting used to git in 
> the first place to work with a 3GB archive from day one, rather than 
> getting into it a bit more gradually.
> 
> Comments?

FWIW, it looks pretty reasonable to me. Perhaps we should have a separate GIT repository with the previous history though, and in the first new commit the parent could point to the last commit from the other repository.

Just if it isn't too much work, though. :-)
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Message 7 of 42 in “full kernel history, in patchset format”
  1. Ingo MolnarApr 16, 2005
  2. Ingo MolnarApr 16, 2005
  3. David MansfieldApr 16, 2005
  4. Ingo MolnarApr 16, 2005
  5. Francois RomieuApr 16, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  8. Christopher LiApr 16, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2005
  10. Mike TahtApr 16, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2005
  12. Christopher LiApr 16, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2005
  14. Mike TahtApr 16, 2005
  15. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2005
  17. Jan-Benedict GlawApr 16, 2005
  18. Thomas GleixnerApr 16, 2005
  19. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  21. Thomas GleixnerApr 16, 2005
  22. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
  23. Thomas GleixnerApr 16, 2005
  24. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  25. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
  27. Thomas GleixnerApr 16, 2005
  28. David LangApr 16, 2005
  29. Ingo MolnarApr 16, 2005
  30. David WoodhouseApr 17, 2005
  31. Petr BaudisApr 17, 2005
  32. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2005
  33. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  34. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2005
  35. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  36. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2005
  37. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  38. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  39. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2005
  40. Catalin MarinasApr 18, 2005
  41. David MansfieldApr 18, 2005
  42. Catalin MarinasApr 19, 2005

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