From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Claim your early Unix contributions on GitHub
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:17:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330191753.GC25392@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56fbc719.zB52lI3VaFUfvp4R%schily@schily.net>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:
>
> > The Unix History repository on GitHub [1] aims to provide the evolution
> > of Unix from the 1970s until today under Git revision control. Through
> > a few changes recently made [2] it's now possible for individual
> > contributors to have their GitHub profile linked to their early Unix
> > contributions. Ken Thompson graciously made this move last week
> > following a personal email invitation. I think it would be really cool
> > if more followed. This would send a powerful message of continuity and
> > tradition in computing to youngsters joining GitHub today.
>
> Given that using git enforces a loss of meta data, is there a chance to get
> the SCCS history for older UNIX versions?
You are the first person outside of BitMover that I've ever seen
recognize that. Go you! It's very annoying, we can write a perfect BK
to Git exporter but going the other way is a research project.
--larry "not feeling love for git" mcvoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 7:53 Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-30 12:31 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-30 13:10 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-30 13:44 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-30 19:17 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2016-03-30 21:07 ` Random832
2016-03-30 23:03 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-31 3:20 ` Larry McVoy
2016-03-31 3:34 ` Random832
2016-03-31 3:40 ` Larry McVoy
2016-03-30 23:42 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-31 3:54 ` Larry McVoy
2016-03-30 14:25 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-03-30 15:23 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-30 19:14 ` Larry McVoy
2016-03-30 15:49 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-30 16:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-30 16:29 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-30 16:14 ` Pat Barron
2016-03-31 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-31 21:54 ` Ron Natalie
2016-04-01 9:01 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-04-01 14:41 ` Clem Cole
2016-04-01 21:00 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-04-01 13:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-04-01 21:52 ` Pat Barron
2016-03-30 16:30 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-03-30 16:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-30 16:55 ` John Cowan
2016-03-30 18:28 Norman Wilson
2016-03-30 20:06 ` Ronald Natalie
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