From: D M German <dmg@uvic.ca>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: helping with tracking commits across repos
Organization: University of Victoria
References: <87r4ifxzwu.fsf@mn.cs.uvic.ca> <20130412203146.GA31283@kroah.com>
	<87r4ibpiq9.fsf@mn.cs.uvic.ca> <20130415230923.GA2417@kroah.com>
Reply-To: dmg@uvic.ca
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:13:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20130415230923.GA2417@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Mon, 15
	Apr 2013 16:09:23 -0700")
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 Greg KH twisted the bytes to say:

 >> http://o.cs.uvic.ca:20810/perl/next.pl

 Greg> Yes, that's a great thing.  Maybe the ability to see the subject: line
 Greg> of the commit somewhere easier than having to click through to the patch
 Greg> would be nice, so we can just glance at the report and say, "Look at all
 Greg> of the btrfs patches that showed up out of nowhere, what happened?"

 Greg> Oh, and if you could do it for a specific kernel release, not a date
 Greg> range, that would be nice (i.e. report for 3.9-rc1, 3.8-rc1, 3.7-rc1,
 Greg> etc.)

What would be the simplest approach to getting the date? I suspect that
it can be done by doing some command line magic in Linus git repo.

 >> is this what you had in mind? obviously Linus commits appear in his repo
 >> before Next, so I could drop him from the report.

 Greg> That's just a tiny number so it's probably not needed.

 >> I have also added the commit that merges each commit, which is probably
 >> useful too. If it is empty either we haven't update the data or it
 >> was done straight into linus repo (as in 3e2e0d2c222bdf5bafd722dec1618fa6073ef372).

I's not difficult to do. I'll take care of it.

--dmg


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