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

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Message-ID: <20070820200914.GB11718@lug-owl.de>
Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:09:14 +0200
From:	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	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, 2007-07-23 20:10:23 -0400, Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org> 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.

Some years ago, I also worked on old Linux releases. Have you found
the tarballs in my directory at kernel.org?

MfG, JBG

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