Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 12/15/22 16:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 
> 'prehistory', which covers exactly that.  It is connected the the master branch 
> in a backwards-time-travel way, so that the tip of the branch is the oldest man 
> pages that one can find --that is, 1.0--.
>
> This is not a stable branch, and may be rebased in the future to fill gaps (such 
> as man-pages-1.1, which is missing), which is the reason I didn't create tags 
> for the versions.
>
> Anyone curious about the old pages like me, can now use all the power of git(1) 
> for that purpose.  Below you can see a glance of what is now available through git.
>
> To avoid misattributing authorship of changes, I attributed them to time itself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> P.S.:  Andries, do you know anything about 1.1?  There's the announce in your 
> ftp server, but the tarball is missing.
>
> P.S.2:  Branden, this is what I meant.  You can have a look at it and see if it 
> pleases your archeological interests; it pleases mine for sure.  I don't think 
> it will be a big issue for normal development to have such a branch in the 
> official repository.
>
> ---
>
>
> $ git log -1 prehistory
> commit 8cef0647eb4ffc26786236b66be7027dfaaa4938 (HEAD -> prehistory, 
> korg/prehistory)
> Author: Krónos <Krónos@Sāturnus>
> Date:   Thu Dec 15 16:07:56 2022 +0100
>
>      man-pages 1.0
>
>      man-pages-1.1 seems to be missing.  :/
>
>      Link: <https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/ftpdocs/linux-local/manpages.archive/>
>      Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

I amended the author dates to match the dates and times of the tarballs:

$ git lg
* 09bfb377f - Mon, 11 Oct 1993 00:00:00 +0100 (29 years ago) (HEAD -> 
prehistory)
|           man-pages 1.0 - Krónos
* 978113096 - Mon, 29 Nov 1993 00:00:00 +0100 (29 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.2 - Krónos
* b71c082e5 - Sun, 3 Jul 1994 22:02:00 +0200 (28 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.3 - Krónos
* f71c48da5 - Wed, 14 Sep 1994 19:16:00 +0200 (28 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.4 - Krónos
* 2303a3601 - Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:25:00 +0100 (28 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.5 - Krónos
* 8c7c4c5dc - Mon, 12 Jun 1995 01:22:00 +0200 (28 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.6 - Krónos
* d656dd52a - Sun, 23 Jul 1995 09:33:00 +0200 (27 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.7 - Krónos
* b8c43a4fb - Tue, 15 Aug 1995 21:55:00 +0200 (27 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.8 - Krónos
* 6784ab85e - Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:13:00 +0200 (27 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.9 - Krónos
* e34813fb2 - Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:26:00 +0100 (27 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.10 - Krónos
* 2f5e0d891 - Mon, 15 Apr 1996 01:38:00 +0200 (27 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.11 - Krónos
* 9334624e9 - Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:47:00 +0200 (26 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.12 - Krónos
* 8ef9791d1 - Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:46:00 +0200 (26 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.12a - Krónos
* 10a95c96a - Wed, 6 Nov 1996 02:51:00 +0100 (26 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.13 - Krónos
* f5d5fed3a - Mon, 20 Jan 1997 23:15:00 +0100 (26 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.14 - Krónos
* 402dd0d3e - Sun, 2 Feb 1997 02:55:00 +0100 (26 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.15 - Krónos
* 5d84358fb - Sat, 31 May 1997 16:14:00 +0200 (26 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.16 - Krónos
* e4c9d88c9 - Fri, 18 Jul 1997 13:16:00 +0200 (25 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.17 - Krónos
* f97ae45c7 - Mon, 8 Dec 1997 02:11:00 +0100 (25 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.18 - Krónos
* cfba25324 - Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:53:00 +0200 (25 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.19 - Krónos
* 8cfa1c516 - Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:36:00 +0200 (25 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.20 - Krónos
* eef935ea2 - Mon, 7 Sep 1998 01:47:00 +0200 (24 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.21 - Krónos
* b8573c3c2 - Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:16:00 +0100 (24 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.22 - Krónos
* 3ba8d3554 - Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:04:00 +0200 (24 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.23 - Krónos
* 33faa4e2b - Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:37:00 +0200 (24 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.24 - Krónos
* 0c958b447 - Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:36:00 +0200 (23 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.25 - Krónos
* 1d4f6dda5 - Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:48:00 +0200 (23 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.26 - Krónos
* 193692b4a - Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:55:00 +0100 (23 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.27 - Krónos
* 699523356 - Sun, 28 Nov 1999 05:16:00 +0100 (23 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.28 - Krónos
* 2851a783d - Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:54:00 +0100 (23 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.29 - Krónos
* a2c3e36a1 - Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:40:00 +0200 (23 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.30 - Krónos
* e88a327b1 - Sun, 13 Aug 2000 03:50:00 +0200 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.31 - Krónos
* a1d230bac - Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:34:00 +0100 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.32 - Krónos
* 795b01baa - Tue, 12 Dec 2000 04:27:00 +0100 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.33 - Krónos
* aa7a8e7a3 - Sun, 24 Dec 2000 17:52:00 +0100 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.34 - Krónos
* 7ae478352 - Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:32:00 +0100 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.35 - Krónos
* 9dde23773 - Thu, 17 May 2001 22:00:00 +0200 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.36 - Krónos
* 8746481e4 - Sat, 2 Jun 2001 00:35:00 +0200 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.37 - Krónos
* 1b100a9e7 - Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:24:00 +0200 (22 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.38 - Krónos
* cd097888f - Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:35:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.39 - Krónos
* ace8cfd83 - Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:44:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.40 - Krónos
* 7d6828007 - Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:30:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.41 - Krónos
* 96af3ded6 - Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:16:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.42 - Krónos
* 0f46a9d0c - Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:58:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.43 - Krónos
* ad459f434 - Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:46:00 +0100 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.44 - Krónos
* e294948ef - Sat, 15 Dec 2001 04:36:00 +0100 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.45 - Krónos
* 8f23cf05d - Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:36:00 +0100 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.46 - Krónos
* 33a685ec0 - Wed, 26 Dec 2001 22:02:00 +0100 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.47 - Krónos
* c2cd931cc - Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:07:00 +0100 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.48 - Krónos
* 670c71184 - Thu, 30 May 2002 02:51:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.49 - Krónos
* ddfda04cd - Thu, 30 May 2002 22:57:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.50 - Krónos
* 1fda4006a - Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:19:00 +0200 (21 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.51 - Krónos
* 2ffc2bb04 - Mon, 22 Jul 2002 02:07:00 +0200 (20 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.52 - Krónos
* e9bc0b755 - Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:30:00 +0200 (20 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.53 - Krónos
* 34a878130 - Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:33:00 +0100 (20 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.54 - Krónos
* ff2a7e6d0 - Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:39:00 +0100 (20 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.55 - Krónos
* e62dac963 - Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:16:00 +0100 (20 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.56 - Krónos
* 2e207fbb0 - Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:44:00 +0200 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.57 - Krónos
* 959e68c13 - Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:46:00 +0200 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.58 - Krónos
* f16a3fe2b - Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:29:00 +0200 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.59 - Krónos
* c99e1dd78 - Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:26:00 +0200 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.60 - Krónos
* 55f1d8044 - Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:57:00 +0100 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.61 - Krónos
* 662c3729e - Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:48:00 +0100 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.62 - Krónos
* 158529471 - Mon, 17 Nov 2003 02:05:00 +0100 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.63 - Krónos
* ac0eabc3e - Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:36:00 +0100 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.64 - Krónos
* 89d2a0ae3 - Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:38:00 +0100 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.65 - Krónos
* 2a8963294 - Sun, 8 Feb 2004 06:59:00 +0100 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.66 - Krónos
* f3bb04d8c - Fri, 21 May 2004 01:36:00 +0200 (19 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.67 - Krónos
* 4f4be5824 - Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:37:00 +0200 (18 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.68 - Krónos
* 6798103e2 - Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:03:00 +0200 (18 years ago)
|           man-pages 1.69 - Krónos
* fea681daf - Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:51:07 +0000 (18 years ago) (tag: 
man-pages-1.70)
            Import of man-pages 1.70 - Michael Kerrisk


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