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On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just been searching for history on sys_clone2() but have come up empty.
> "git blame" isn't helping, either... the current code dates back before the
> start of the git history.

There are several trees containing more history (e.g. from bitkeeper).
Search for "full history linux git".

Anyway, it doesn't help much in this case. sys_clone2() was introduced in

commit 0830ad57cf52da22dbb933945fd1bda6b320e0ee
Author: linus1 <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu Jul 13 11:00:00 2000 -0600

    Import 2.4.0-test5pre2

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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