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by geofft
3025 days ago
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"The repo" only dates back to v2.6.12-rc2 shortly after the first release of git, but there are repos with imported code from previous VCSes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3264283/linux-kernel-his... https://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/ The first link describes using git's "grafts" feature to make the UI believe that the first commit in the normal repo actually has parents, which means you can use the repo normally and agree with everyone else about commit numbers, but also `git log` will go all the way back to Linux 0.0.1. I had this setup on my work machine in 2012 and it was useful a few times, but in the last couple of years I haven't really needed to see history past 2.6.12. (But yes, the history repos don't explain the size of the normal linux.git repo - except to the extent that you need to spend over a decade writing an OS to get even that many lines of code in the first commit and that much activity shortly thereafter.) |
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