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

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708201643450.16727@xanadu.home>
Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:46:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
To:	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>
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, 20 Aug 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> 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?

No, I didn't know about them.

>From a quick look, I think I already captured everything you have prior 
v1.0 though.


Nicolas
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