Hi Kevin, El Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:51:33AM +0300 Kevin Wilson ha dit: > 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 first, before git was introduced the patches were handled by a proprietary VCS called bitkeeper. git was specifically written as a replacement for bitkeeper. see the following article for more details: http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-unveils-new-Linux-control-system/2100-7344_3-5678651.html -- Matthias Kaehlcke Embedded Linux Developer Amsterdam Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration (Thomas Edison) .''`. using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' : `. `'` gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `- _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
