On 2020-03-31 21:39, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote:
[...]> Still, the
official Linux git log (
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?o...
) lacks the development history preceding 2005-04-16, and starts with
one heck of a commit:
FWIW, this is mainly because early Git was unable to cope with huge
histories, converting old history to another format isn't
straighforward, and the history is immutable.
Earlier history is out there and there are ways to `graft` it to a
current repo to locally join the histories together. See e.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8130239/99057