Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Apr 16, 2005, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20050416191810.GA27748@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <42612771.5000705@cobite.com>

* David Mansfield <david@cobite.com> wrote:

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> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>the patches contain all the existing metadata, dates, log messages and 
> >>revision history. (What i think is missing is the BK tree merge 
> >>information, but i'm not sure we want/need to convert them to GIT.)
> >
> >
> >author names are abbreviated, e.g. 'viro' instead of 
> >viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, and no committer information is 
> >included (albeit commiter ought to be Linus in most cases). These are 
> >limitations of the BK->CVS gateway i think.
> >
> 
> Glad to hear cvsps made it through!  I'm curious what the manual 
> fixups required were, except for the binary file issue (logo.gif).

--cvs-direct was needed to speed it up from 'several days to finish' to 'several hours to finish', but it crashed on a handful of patches [i used the latest devel snapshot so this isnt a complaint]. (one of the crashes was when generating 1860.patch.) Also, 'cvs rdiff' apparently emits an empty patch for diffs that remove a file that end without having a newline character - but this isnt cvsps's problem. (grep for +++ in the patchset to find those cases.)

> As to the actual email addresses, for more recent patches, the 
> Signed-off should help.  For earlier ones, isn't their some script 
> which 'knows' a bunch of canonical author->email mappings? (the 
> shortlog script or something)?

yeah, that's not that much of a problem, most of the names are unique, and the rest can be fixed up too.

> Is the full committer email address actually in the changeset in BK?  
> If so, given that we have the unique id (immutable I believe) of the 
> changset, could it be extracted directly from BK?

i think it's included in BK.

	Ingo