Re: [QUESTION] about .git/info/grafts file

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jan 19, 2006, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20060119174536.GF28365@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <43CF97AF.9060300@op5.se>

Dear diary, on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:44:15PM CET, I got a letter where Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> said that...

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> Ach, no. The current kernel repo only has history since April 17 (around 
> 155 MB of objects, with less than optimal packing), when it started 
> using git for versioning. The kernel repo also sees a lot of very rapid 
> development.
> 
> The full kernel tree, with history since 1991 or some such, is about 3.2 
> GB.

There is some "accurate" history only from the moment the kernel got tracked in BK, and it is certainly far less.

The question is, what is the "official" kernel history repository? There is at least

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git

with a 251M pack and

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git

with a 165M pack - IIRC the latter is obsoleted by the former and perhaps should be blasted to prevent confusion?

Getting a little offtopic here... Linus, would it be deemed useful to have the script I've pasted in <20060119130519.GB28365@pasky.or.cz> (earlier in this thread) in the kernel's scripts/ directory, pointing at the canonical history repository?

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