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

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707222257540.32367@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 22 2007 16:49, Jon Smirl wrote:

>
> Continuing on with kernel archeology for embedded systems, any
> interest in making a git tree with all of the kernel versions from the
> beginning up to the start of the current git tree?

Well, it would be cool if history was somehow available (I recognize this would be a lot of work). One currently has to go through the bk repo if something is to be searched for in that timeframe.

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> No history in the
> tree, just a simple way to quickly fetch and select a copy of all the
> various old releases. I know they are all available ftp, git tree
> would organize them all in one place and let you fetch them all at
> once.

In fact, we could bisect on it. Though not sure how useful that is with really old versions :)

> If this is small enough you could add it to the current kernel tree.
> Git's super diffing performance might make this fairly small.
>

Jan