linux-kernel - Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

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Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:00:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>
cc:	Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree


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.

> 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
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