Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 15 Dec 2022 23:15:32 +0100

Hi Andries!

On 12/15/22 21:08, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 04:24:31PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi all!

I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository,
named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that.

Good! I have one question: did you preserve the time stamps?

Initially I didn't, but I amended the commits to use the timestamp of the 
tarball as the author date.

I did it by copying the timestamp from the website by hand, so a timezone offset 
may be present, but I guess that's better than nothing.

You can check the branch here :)
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=prehistory>

Here's a sample:

$ git log --pretty=fuller -2 prehistory
commit 9e0fdb0c0192079e5847f49832374ea28b5ad436 (HEAD -> prehistory, 
korg/prehistory)
Author:     Krónos <Krónos@Sāturnus>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 11 00:00:00 1993 +0100
Commit:     Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Dec 15 23:09:38 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>

commit 3c23040573650f36a3f2778a3629f4ae7e6c10ab
Author:     Krónos <Krónos@Sāturnus>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 29 00:00:00 1993 +0100
Commit:     Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Dec 15 23:09:38 2022 +0100

    man-pages 1.2

    Link: <https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/ftpdocs/linux-local/manpages.archive/>
    Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>

P.S.:  Andries, do you know anything about 1.1?  There's the announce in
your ftp server, but the tarball is missing.

If man-pages-1.1.tar.gz is missing that means I didnt have it.
In fact I see time stamps in 1993 for those early files,
but 2004 for man-pages-1.1-announced, so I guess I searched
for man-pages-1.1 at that time and found only the announcement.

Yep, that was my guess.  Well, we got enough for most archeology purposes.

Cheers,
Alex

Andries

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