[__david__]

It doesn't:

    commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (tag: refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc2)
    Author: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
    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!