Lua historical source code converted to Git
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2 sourcesDOdottrap·Nov 30, 2016Submission
daurnimator did an archeology to find all the original Lua source code development history and convert it into a Git repository for easier viewing.
Main source: https://github.com/lua/lua
Tests: https://github.com/lua/tests
luac: https://github.com/lua/luac
manual: https://github.com/lua/manual
His talk: https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Daurnimator.pdf
4 points · Open discussionAt the lua workshop this year I spoke about my efforts to convert the historical source code of lua into git form. Until now this history was private to the lua team.
I finally put the last pieces together and have now pushed the results to github.
It's split into 4 repositories:
- Main source: https://github.com/lua/lua
- Tests: https://github.com/lua/tests
- luac: https://github.com/lua/luac
- manual: https://github.com/lua/manual
See my talk's notes for more info: https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Daurnimator.pdf
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