On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
> For a while I've been pulling together some scripts to create
> a git repo with every single ancient Linux version up to 2.4
> before we had an SCM tracking commits.
> (from 0.01, up to 2.4.0, including every -pre,-test and -rc along
> the way as a separate commit).
>
> And now for the really crazy part:
>
> With actual changelogs for as many commits as possible.
>
> This seemed like a fun idea at first, then about a third the way through
> I began to think this was nuts. At halfway, I'd decided I'd gone too far
> to not finish it, and this is the result. There's still a lot of
> un-changelogged commits, but I've sat on this for about a month
> making slow further progress. (It's getting harder to find changelogs)
>
> About halfway through, in September of 2007, someone called
> 'Gonsolo' did something similar to all this. [http://lwn.net/Articles/250699/]
> Though his version lacked changelogs, and missed a ton of prepatches.
> It was also around this time, I found that I'm not the only person loony
> enough to attempt this, and stumbled across
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive.git
> Nico's archive had some bits I missed, and there were some bits
> in his that I had got, so where possible, I stole some of his changelogs.
> I think my variant is as complete as we're going to get.
Good! I'll certainly have a look.
I was a bit sad not being able to continue my archive, but this became
really too time consuming for me. I always planned to get back to it
but...
Nicolas
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