Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Mon Jul 23 2007 - 15:09:19 EST


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:55:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I actually tried to get something like this together back in the BK days
> > and early in the SCO saga. It was pretty painful to try to find all the
> > historic trees and patches - they're all in different format, and some of
> > them are unreliable (ie CVS imports by people like Ted).
>
> Um, *I* never had the bad taste to import Linux kernels into CVS. :-)
>
> I'm pretty sure we never had anything like that on tsx-11.mit.edu, either.

Well, I remember having to clean up some of the source archives I've
found which contained CVS directories. Can't tell which one anymore,
but they were amongst the oldest ones.


Nicolas
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