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I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

138 pointsby ImGajeed76last Sunday at 12:08 PM23 commentsview on HN

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spit2windtoday at 11:22 AM

> only a handful of VCS besides git have ever managed a full import of the kernel's history. Fossil (SQLite-based, by the SQLite team) never did.

I find this hard to believe. I searched the Fossil forums and found no mention of such an attempt (and failure). Unfortunately, I don't have a computer handy to verify or disprove. Is there any evidence for this claim?

tonnydouradotoday at 8:48 AM

That was an informative post but Jesus Christ on a bicycle, reign in the LLM a bit. The whole thing was borderline painful to read, with so many "GPTisms" I almost bailed out a couple of times. If you're gonna use this stuff to write for you, at least *try* to make it match a style of your own.

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tombertyesterday at 9:16 PM

If I recall correctly, the Fossil SCM uses SQLite under the covers for a lot of its stuff.

Obviously that's not surprising considering its creator, but hearing that was kind of the first time I had ever considered that you could translate something like Git semantics to a relational database.

I haven't played with Pgit...though I kind of think that I should now.

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niobetoday at 12:20 AM

Very cool

gurjeetyesterday at 8:59 PM

Technically correct title would be: s/Kernel into/Kernel Git History into/

    Pgit: I Imported the Linux Kernel Git History into PostgreSQL
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JodieBenitezyesterday at 9:08 PM

Read the title and immediately thought "what a weird way to solve the performance loss with kernel 7..." The mind tricking itself :)

srslyTrying2hlpyesterday at 10:26 PM

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QuiCasseRienyesterday at 10:04 PM

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