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

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>,
	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 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
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