On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > For a while I've been pulling together some scripts to create > a git repo with every single ancient Linux version up to 2.4 > before we had an SCM tracking commits. > (from 0.01, up to 2.4.0, including every -pre,-test and -rc along > the way as a separate commit). > > And now for the really crazy part: > > With actual changelogs for as many commits as possible. > > This seemed like a fun idea at first, then about a third the way through > I began to think this was nuts. At halfway, I'd decided I'd gone too far > to not finish it, and this is the result. There's still a lot of > un-changelogged commits, but I've sat on this for about a month > making slow further progress. (It's getting harder to find changelogs) > > About halfway through, in September of 2007, someone called > 'Gonsolo' did something similar to all this. > [http://lwn.net/Articles/250699/] > Though his version lacked changelogs, and missed a ton of prepatches. > It was also around this time, I found that I'm not the only person loony > enough to attempt this, and stumbled across > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive.git > Nico's archive had some bits I missed, and there were some bits > in his that I had got, so where possible, I stole some of his changelogs. > I think my variant is as complete as we're going to get.
Good! I'll certainly have a look. I was a bit sad not being able to continue my archive, but this became really too time consuming for me. I always planned to get back to it but... Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
