Re: The history of the Linux OS

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:36:44 -0000 (GMT)


On 23-Nov-98 Riley Williams wrote:

> I've been looking into setting up a CVS tree that will contain the
> full kernel source history...
> Put them in a CVS archive, and you replace "sum of kernel source
> archive sizes" with "sum of upgrade patch file sizes", and thus
> massively reduce the size of the result...
> I would suspect the result will fit on a ZipDisk, never mind a CD, but
> I'll not know for sure until I get it set up...
> Are there any CVS experts out there?

now we're getting somewhere
trouble is - as the puzzle unfolds, what do you do about the situation where an
intermediate release turns up

say we have 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4
put them in cvs and all of a sudden 1.1.2 appears from some kindly soul
can cvs/rcs/sccs (you choose) handle this?

--
simon

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