From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:46:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Message-ID: <20070723234628.GN21668@ftp.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231432560.6355@xanadu.home>

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>  - v0.96 sources
> 
>  - v0.99.12 announcement
> 
>  - sources for v0.99.13{abcdefghij} (got k, don't know where the serie 
>    ends) as well as announcements for all of them
> 
>  - all announcements for v0.99.14{a-z} except for pl14r
> 
>  - announcements for pl15c to pl15j, 1.0-pre1, and ALPHA-1.0.
> 
> Otherwise the archive appears fairly complete with almost 3 years of 
> Linux development history captured in a 3MB pack file.

Umm...  IIRC, tar was unhappy with several tarballs on ftp.kernel.org.
Do you have replacements (or instructions re combination of tar(1) options
to make it eat them)?