From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:43:27 GMT Subject: Re: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Message-ID: <20050416174327.GG19099@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:04:31PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds told me that... > 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. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor