git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

From
HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2007, 00:12 UTC
Message-ID
<46A54406.8020605@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231957450.6355@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre wrote:
Show 13 quoted lines
> 
> I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with.  I 
> recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier 
> or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some 
> patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc.  Then the result 
> was 
> cross checked with summary lists like this one: 
> 
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html
> 
> This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that 
> wasn't always trivial.
> 

Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux.

	-hpa
Previous: Nicolas PitreNext: Nicolas Pitre
Message 19 of 32 in “Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree”
  1. Jon SmirlJul 22, 2007
  2. Jan EngelhardtJul 22, 2007
  3. Paul MundtJul 22, 2007
  4. Jan EngelhardtJul 22, 2007
  5. Jan EngelhardtJul 22, 2007
  6. H. Peter AnvinJul 22, 2007
  7. Michael TharpJul 22, 2007
  8. Jon SmirlJul 23, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsJul 23, 2007
  10. Nicolas PitreJul 23, 2007
  11. Linus TorvaldsJul 23, 2007
  12. Nicolas PitreJul 23, 2007
  13. Linus TorvaldsJul 23, 2007
  14. Nicolas PitreJul 23, 2007
  15. Arjan van de VenJul 23, 2007
  16. Al ViroJul 23, 2007
  17. H. Peter AnvinJul 23, 2007
  18. Nicolas PitreJul 24, 2007
  19. H. Peter AnvinJul 24, 2007
  20. Nicolas PitreJul 24, 2007
  21. Jan-Benedict GlawAug 20, 2007
  22. Nicolas PitreAug 20, 2007
  23. Oleg VerychSep 19, 2007
  24. Theodore TsoJul 23, 2007
  25. Nicolas PitreJul 23, 2007
  26. Linus TorvaldsJul 23, 2007
  27. Theodore TsoJul 23, 2007
  28. Jon SmirlJul 23, 2007
  29. Git tree for old kernelsNicolas Pitre, Aug 19, 2007
  30. Josef SipekAug 20, 2007
  31. Nicolas PitreAug 20, 2007
  32. Josef SipekAug 20, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.