Hi, On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:50 PM, yoann padioleau <yoann.padioleau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > If anyone is interested, I have put on my website[1] a git repository > containing the full history of Linux, from 0.01 to now. > It's built from 3 other git repositories: > - the one from Dave Jones from 0.01 to 2.4.0, > - the one from tglx from 2.4.0 to 2.6.12, > - the one from Linus Torvalds from 2.6.12 to now. > > I used the "graft" feature of git (thanks to Junio and people > on #git for the tip) to link them together. I also modified > (via a git-filter-branch) the dates of some commits as for > instance all commits from the Dave Jones's repo had the > same date (23 Nov 2007). For this I mainly used the timestamp info > of files on kernel.org. The script and info I used are also > available on my website[2]. > > Note that because I used the graft feature, this repo is > really just a superset of the one from Torvalds so you can > pull as you would do with the Torvalds repo to get the > latest Linux version. > > The reason why I built this repo is that I wanted to study > the history of source code comments in Linux and git annotate > could answer most of my questions automatically. For instance > I wanted to know what comments were written before 1995 that are > still present unmodified in the current Linux version. > But for git annotate to work I needed a git repo with the > full history of Linux. Other people may find my repo useful for other > purpose. > > [1] full git repo: > http://aryx.kicks-ass.org/~pad/linux/full-history-linux.git.tar > Then untar it and do a git checkout -f to populate it > > > [2] script to build the git repo from scratch: > http://aryx.kicks-ass.org/~pad/linux/make-full-linux-history.tgz > Then untar it; make; ./make-full-kernel-history full > Note: you will need to install OCaml first. > > PS: Is there a way to put it on kernel.org? > > PS2: Some commits have only an approximate date. It was good > enough for what I wanted. If you want more precise date, tell > me, the script is easy to modify. That's great :-) I already got my copy and I'll try to use it to study linux evolution over the years :-) really good -- Best Regards, Felipe Balbi felipebalbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
