From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:08:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231507040.6355@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070723185732.GB30165@thunk.org>

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:55:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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).
> 
> Um, *I* never had the bad taste to import Linux kernels into CVS.  :-)
> 
> I'm pretty sure we never had anything like that on tsx-11.mit.edu, either.

Well, I remember having to clean up some of the source archives I've 
found which contained CVS directories.  Can't tell which one anymore, 
but they were amongst the oldest ones.


Nicolas