Hi all!I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that. It is connected the the master branch in a backwards-time-travel way, so that the tip of the branch is the oldest man pages that one can find --that is, 1.0--.
This is not a stable branch, and may be rebased in the future to fill gaps (such as man-pages-1.1, which is missing), which is the reason I didn't create tags for the versions.
Anyone curious about the old pages like me, can now use all the power of git(1) for that purpose. Below you can see a glance of what is now available through git.
To avoid misattributing authorship of changes, I attributed them to time itself. Cheers, AlexP.S.: Andries, do you know anything about 1.1? There's the announce in your ftp server, but the tarball is missing.
P.S.2: Branden, this is what I meant. You can have a look at it and see if it pleases your archeological interests; it pleases mine for sure. I don't think it will be a big issue for normal development to have such a branch in the official repository.
--- $ git log -1 prehistorycommit 8cef0647eb4ffc26786236b66be7027dfaaa4938 (HEAD -> prehistory, korg/prehistory)
Author: Krónos <Krónos@Sāturnus>
Date: Thu Dec 15 16:07:56 2022 +0100
man-pages 1.0
man-pages-1.1 seems to be missing. :/
Link: <https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/ftpdocs/linux-local/manpages.archive/>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
$ git lg
* 8cef0647e - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:07:56 +0100 (7 minutes ago) (HEAD ->
prehistory, korg/prehistory)
| man-pages 1.0 - Krónos
* 926b7e75b - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:05:38 +0100 (9 minutes ago)
| man-pages 1.2 - Krónos
* cc4253f4d - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:05:24 +0100 (10 minutes ago)
| man-pages 1.3 - Krónos
* 6e0b40ea2 - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:03:04 +0100 (12 minutes ago)
| man-pages 1.4 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.5 - Krónos
* a7068ba99 - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:02:26 +0100 (13 minutes ago)
| man-pages 1.6 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.7 - Krónos
* 042526f05 - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:11:26 +0100 (64 minutes ago)
| man-pages 1.8 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.9 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.10 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.11 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.12 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.12a - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.13 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.14 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.15 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.16 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.17 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.18 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.19 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.20 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.21 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.22 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.23 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.24 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.25 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.26 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.27 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.28 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.29 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.30 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.31 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.33 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.34 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.35 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.36 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.37 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.38 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.39 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.40 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.42 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.43 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.44 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.45 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.46 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.47 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.48 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.49 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.50 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.51 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.52 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.53 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.54 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.55 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.56 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.57 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.58 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.59 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.60 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.61 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.62 - Krónos
* 7524a4954 - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:19:51 +0100 (2 hours ago)
| man-pages 1.63 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.64 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.65 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.66 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.67 - Krónos
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| man-pages 1.68 - Krónos
* 92ddf33c6 - Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:08:03 +0100 (2 hours ago)
| man-pages 1.69 - Krónos
* fea681daf - Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:51:07 +0000 (18 years ago) (tag: man-pages-1.70)
Import of man-pages 1.70 - Michael Kerrisk
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