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

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

I actually tried to get something like this together back in the BK days and early in the SCO saga. It was pretty painful to try to find all the historic trees and patches - they're all in different format, and some of them are unreliable (ie CVS imports by people like Ted).

The good news is that git would be a lot more natural to the process of trying to create a history, because you could basically import random trees, and tag them as just independent trees, and then re-create the history after-the-fact by trying to stitch them all together. And if you find a new tree, you'd just re-stitch it - something that was very hard to do with BK (and BK generally wouldn't help you with keeping multiple independent trees around, and wouldn't generally accept the notion of re-doing the histories and keeping various versions of the histories around).

So I've been thinking about trying to re-create some really old history into git, but it's still a lot of work.. And obviously not very useful, just interesting from an archeological standpoint.

			Linus