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The kernel doesn't really have the one central blessed point of which you speak. Sure you can grab mainline releases from Linus's repository, but that's not wh
by corbet 7y ago
The kernel doesn't really have the one central blessed point of which you speak. Sure you can grab mainline releases from Linus's repository, but that's not where the development actually happens. It really is a distributed project, and having to delete all those old repositories would really hurt.
- alkonaut 7y agoIf 2 separate copies of the same repository does the same rewrite to sha256, their histories are still compatible and equal up to the point where they diverge. So other than that the rewrite needs to happen in more places, it should still be doable. Needs to happen at more or less the same time however.