Greetings, TXR-cheologists! 

As you might know, the git history of TXR begins with Version 018. 

I have taken some older snapshots of TXR sources from txr-011 through
txr-017, and put them into a branch of the repo called txr-old. 

Thanks to the "grafts" feature of git, I was able to also prepend it to
the master history (in a fake way). You can see this in the main repo. 

To recreate the same effect in your local repo, first fetch the objects;


git fetch origin txr-old
git fetch origin --tags 

Then create the .git/info/grafts file with exactly this content: 

a4054e21a03f6c388aa7c8ff79eefc8f36bd3f76
0bf28ecd2bf99a65d6284b6bc00dc15ca01b93b2 

The hash on the left is the root commit hash; the one on the right is
the fake grafted parent, txr-017. 

If everything is correct, you should be able to see: 

$ git log --oneline txr-018
a4054e2 Starting txr git.
0bf28ec txr-017 2009-10-17
b38e34f txr-016 2009-10-16
0b38bc9 txr-015 2009-10-15
2f5e7a5 txr-014 2009-10-05
c7edf3a txr-013 2009-09-30
bf1cc00 txr-012 2009-09-28
f8010dc txr-011 2009-09-25
5c880c9 NIL 

Cheers ...