Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:51:48 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux.bkbits.net question: mapping cset to kernel version?
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:20AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >But that's how you have to do it, sorry.  You have the patches, why
> >can't you just use grep?  :)
> 
> What does Linus do to keep track of these changes?  Granted, he's not using 
> BitKeeper any more, but it does support release management, so I would 
> presume he was tagging the releases with it.

Yes, and that tagging worked just fine.  You can see this too if you
want to check out a tree based on a tag.

> What does he do now?

Uses git, which will have the same issues as you are facing :)

Please remeber, with a distributed development system like this, going
off of the "date" means _nothing_.  What matters is when that patch and
branch is merged into his tree, and to determine that, you will have to
dig around a bit.

And since you have raw patches, and know what you are looking for, the
solution should be very simple (hint, grep...)

Good luck,

greg k-h
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