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Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 19, 2006, 19:25 UTC
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
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> On 8/18/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > 
> > > I suspect the size reduction is directly proportional to the age of
> > > the repository. The kernel repository only has three years worth of
> > > data in it.  Linus has the full history in another repository that is
> > > not in general distribution. We can get it from him when he gets back
> > > from vacation.
> > 
> > Maybe you mean
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
> 
> That one only goes to 2002, the full one goes back to around 1990.

I don't actually have such a "full" history. It would be wonderful if somebody took the time to try to piece such a thing together (and git actually makes that a _lot_ easier than some other SCM's, because you can just import random versions in any order, and then re-stich just the commit history when you add a new thing in the middle, without generating any new trees or deltas or anything strange at all).

But it's a lot of work. I tried to do a "Linux-Historic" archive about a year ago (and imported some of the old kernels I had), but I gave up, just because it was such a pain to try to do a good job and try to find old release notes etc to import into the changelogs etc. 

Oh, well.

So the only "old" history I have is indeed that BK conversion by Thomas Gleixner. Any pre-BK stuff only exists as patches and tar-balls on various ftp sites (and I don't have any magic repository of my own, so everybody else can do exactly as well as I could, with possibly the exception that I might remember some random details about some old release history - but considering my memory, that's pretty unlikely too. Google is your friend)

			Linus
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  1. Jon SmirlAug 16, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceAug 17, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  5. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  9. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  10. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  11. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  13. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  15. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  16. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  17. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2006
  18. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  19. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2006
  20. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  21. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  22. Shawn PearceAug 21, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2006
  24. Jon SmirlAug 21, 2006
  25. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  26. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2006
  27. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  28. Linus TorvaldsAug 19, 2006
  29. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2006
  30. Shawn PearceAug 21, 2006
  31. Jon SmirlAug 21, 2006
  32. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  33. Jon SmirlAug 21, 2006
  34. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  35. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
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