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

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jul 23, 2007, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231432560.6355@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231057480.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> > I started this once.
> > 
> > I have (sort of) a GIT tree with all Linux revisions that I could find 
> > from v0.01 up to v1.0.9.  But the most interesting information and also 
> > what is the most time consuming is the retrieval of announcement 
> > messages for those releases in old mailing list or newsgroup archives to 
> > serve as commit log data.  It seems to be even arder to find for post 
> > v1.0 releases.
> 
> Yes, I agree. Google finds some of them, but (a) I was never very good 
> about announcements anyway and (b) there's nothing really good to search 
> for, so it's very hit-and-miss.
> 
> Some of the really early release notes are easy to find, just because I 
> made them available with the sources, but mostly I'd just have posten to 
> the newsgroup/mailing lists.

That's what I used when available, especially to properly time stamp those commits. Using the latest date on files included in the archive isn't always reliable.

OK so actually what I have is from v0.01 up to v1.0 creating 93 commits.

What is missing is:

 - v0.02 sources

 - v0.10 announcement

 - v0.96 sources

 - v0.99.12 announcement

 - sources for v0.99.13{abcdefghij} (got k, don't know where the serie 
   ends) as well as announcements for all of them

 - all announcements for v0.99.14{a-z} except for pl14r

 - announcements for pl15c to pl15j, 1.0-pre1, and ALPHA-1.0.

Otherwise the archive appears fairly complete with almost 3 years of Linux development history captured in a 3MB pack file.

Nicolas