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Someone ported and grafted the old history onto the current history: https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux https://archive.org/details/git-history-of

• bhaak 11y ago
  Yeah, although git isn't really suited for stitching different repositories together. git replace does work now somewhat better than git graft did but it shows that git was never meant to be used with multiple repositories. Going by the commit message, Linus didn't see lots of harm by just cutting off the history: 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! https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1da177e https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1da177e