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From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] Claim your early Unix contributions on GitHub
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:31:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56fbc719.zB52lI3VaFUfvp4R%schily@schily.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FB8616.6060908@aueb.gr>

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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?

Jörg

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 12:31 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 [this message]
2016-03-30 13:10   ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-30 13:44     ` Joerg Schilling
2016-03-30 19:17   ` Larry McVoy
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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