A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution

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18 points lioeters | 5 comments | 28 Nov 25 09:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.649s | source
1. werdl ◴[28 Nov 25 10:46 UTC] No.46077449[source]▶
Interesting to see the decisions they took regarding which flavours they chose to include.
2. phplovesong ◴[28 Nov 25 11:24 UTC] No.46077676[source]▶
670,000 commits. Thats big. But only 2K merges? I assume push straight to master in most cases?
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3. mprovost ◴[28 Nov 25 11:48 UTC] No.46077802[source]▶
I don't think either SCCS or RCS tracked merges, so everything looks like a new revision.
4. DSpinellis ◴[28 Nov 25 11:55 UTC] No.46077848[source]▶
I published an updated extension of this post's linked article in Empirical Software Engineering. You can read it without a paywall at https://rdcu.be/b7FzE. You may also be interested to see the actual GitHub repository at https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.