Initial git repository - kernel tree

[Alexandru Juncu]

On 13 May 2013 10:51, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 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 at ppc970.osdl.org>
> 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 Linux project used to store its code in BitKeeper [1]. But then
Linus wrote Git and Git replaced BitKeeper somewhere in 2005.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper