Initial git repository - kernel tree

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

Hi Kevin,

El Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:51:33AM +0300 Kevin Wilson ha dit:

> 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 first, before git was introduced the patches were handled by a
proprietary VCS called bitkeeper. git was specifically written as a
replacement for bitkeeper. see the following article for more details:
http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-unveils-new-Linux-control-system/2100-7344_3-5678651.html

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