From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:40:38 GMT Subject: Re: Linux BKCVS kernel history git import.. Message-ID: <1122457238.3027.37.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > If somebody adds some logic to "parse_commit()" to do the "fake parent" > thing, you can stitch the histories together and see the end result as one > big tree. Even without that, you can already do things like > > git diff v2.6.10..v2.6.12 That's a bit of a hack which really doesn't belong in the git tools. It's not particularly hard to reparent the tree for real -- I'd much rather see a tool added to git which can _actually_ change the 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 commit to have a parent of 0bcc493c633d78373d3fcf9efc29d6a710637519, and ripple the corresponding SHA1 changes up to the current HEAD. Note that the latter commit ID I gave there was actually the 2.6.12-rc2 commit in Thomas' history import, not your own. Thomas has done a lot of work on it, and it has the full names extracted from the shortlog script, full timestamps, branch/merge history and consistent character sets in the commit logs. I'd definitely suggest that you use that instead of the import from bkcvs. http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=summary -- dwmw2