On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 8/18/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > I suspect the size reduction is directly proportional to the age of > > > the repository. The kernel repository only has three years worth of > > > data in it. Linus has the full history in another repository that is > > > not in general distribution. We can get it from him when he gets back > > > from vacation. > > > > Maybe you mean > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git > > That one only goes to 2002, the full one goes back to around 1990. I don't actually have such a "full" history. It would be wonderful if somebody took the time to try to piece such a thing together (and git actually makes that a _lot_ easier than some other SCM's, because you can just import random versions in any order, and then re-stich just the commit history when you add a new thing in the middle, without generating any new trees or deltas or anything strange at all). But it's a lot of work. I tried to do a "Linux-Historic" archive about a year ago (and imported some of the old kernels I had), but I gave up, just because it was such a pain to try to do a good job and try to find old release notes etc to import into the changelogs etc. Oh, well. So the only "old" history I have is indeed that BK conversion by Thomas Gleixner. Any pre-BK stuff only exists as patches and tar-balls on various ftp sites (and I don't have any magic repository of my own, so everybody else can do exactly as well as I could, with possibly the exception that I might remember some random details about some old release history - but considering my memory, that's pretty unlikely too. Google is your friend) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html