On 13 May 2013 10:51, Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I have a question about git patches. > When I run > git log include/linux/skbuff.h > and page down till the end, I reach > 1da177e Linux-2.6.12-rc2 > > (I do it on the net-next tree.) > > git show 1da177e gives: > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700 > > Linux-2.6.12-rc2 > > Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, > even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git > archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about > 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early > git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good > infrastructure for it. > > Let it rip! > > So this is the initial patch from 2005. > > Now, does it mean that prior to this patch all patches > were not handled by git ? or was there some merging > from an old tree to a new tree where history of git > patches was removed in the new tree ? The Linux project used to store its code in BitKeeper [1]. But then Linus wrote Git and Git replaced BitKeeper somewhere in 2005. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
