[fpc-other] Unix history repository: 1970 - current day

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

This is pretty awesome from a geek perspective. :) The complete Unix
history from the PDP7 days, all the way up to the latest FreeBSD 11.0.1
release. That's 47 years of commit history!

"
The history and evolution of the Unix operating system is made available
as a revision management repository, covering the period from its
inception in 1970 as a 2.5 thousand line kernel and 26 commands, to 2016
as a widely-used 27 million line system. The 1.1GB repository contains
about half a million commits and more than two thousand merges. The
repository employs Git system for its storage and is hosted on GitHub.
It has been created by synthesizing with custom software 24 snapshots of
systems developed at Bell Labs, the University of California at
Berkeley, and the 386BSD team, two legacy repositories, and the modern
repository of the open source FreeBSD system. In total, about one
thousand individual contributors are identified, the early ones through
primary research. The data set can be used for empirical research in
software engineering, information systems, and software archaeology.

The project aims to put in the repository as much metadata as possible,
allowing the automated analysis of Unix history.

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
"


On a side note:
That’s also a good testament that Git is up to the task to manage
a rather large commit history. ;-)


Regards,
Graeme