Question

git.kernel.org has a repository named linux-next and a repository named linux-next-history. How do these repositories differ in content, purpose, day to day usage, etc?

Answer 1

I think this explains the reason https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/2/95:

Date      Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:08:34 +1000
From      Stephen Rothwell <>
Subject   linux-next changes

Hi all,

Noone seems to have noticed, but I have mode the following changes to the
linux-next repository on git.kernel.org:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git now
contains just the last 90 (or so) linux-next trees.  I have removed the
"history" branch from this tree as it was serving no real purpose.  You
can fetch a particular tree by using its name as a tag.  It is now aonly
about 40MB relative to Linus' tree (as opposed to 300M for the complete
tree.

I have put the old tree into
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next-history.git
which I will keep maintaining with the new trees, but is just there for
historical purposes.  It also no longer has the "history" branch.

If anyone had a tree left over that referenced linux-next through an
alternate, then you should probably change that to reference
linux-next-history until you have fixed it to not reference it at all.  
-- 
Cheers,  
Stephen Rothwell                    [e-mail]  
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