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

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707232035510.6355@xanadu.home>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:36:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with.  I 
> > recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier 
> > or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some 
> > patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc.  Then the result 
> > was 
> > cross checked with summary lists like this one: 
> > 
> > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html
> > 
> > This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that 
> > wasn't always trivial.
> > 
> 
> Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever
> existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux.

Indeed, already got those.


Nicolas
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