Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

> Ok, nobody really objected to the notion of leaving the kernel history
> behind for now, and in fact most people seemed to basically agree. So with
> that decided, the old kernel testing tree was actually perfectly ok,
> except it had been build up with the old-style commit date handling, which
> made me not want to use it as a base for any real work.
> 
> So I re-created the dang thing (hey, it takes just a few minutes), and
> pushed it out, and there's now an archive on kernel.org in my public
> "personal" directory called "linux-2.6.git". I'll continue the tradition
> of naming git-archive directories as "*.git", since that really ends up
> being the ".git" directory for the checked-out thing.
> 
> I'm not going to announce it on linux-kernel yet, because I don't think
> it's useful to anybody but a git person anyway. Besides, I don't actually
> know how happy the kernel.org people are about this distribution method
> and whether it ends up being a horrible disaster for the mirroring setup. 
> 
> Peter made some noises about /pub/scm, which makes sense, and would be a
> better place than my public tree. Apparently there are other places that
> are willing and able to host things too, so we'll see.
>