Re: Mercurial linux-kernel repository at kernel.org?

[Matt Mackall]

[uncrossposting]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 04:09 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Prior to intrusion, a mercurial repository essentially
> duplicating the Linus' git tree existed at:
> http://www.kernel.com/hg/linux-2.6
> 
> I do not use it, but are there any plans to restore it?

Not on kernel.org, certainly.

I asked the kernel.org admins a while back to send me a copy of the SHA
map file from my account I needed to continue the mirror elsewhere and
HPA declined, making some handwaving towards "eventually letting people
download tarballs of their old accounts".

As far as I know, "eventually" hasn't happened yet. I guess it's time to
fire up a new mirror from scratch. It'll be incompatible with old clones
due to not having the above file and various minor changes in both git
and hg in the 6 years the original mirror was running. I'll announce it
when it's done - it'll probably take a while.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.


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