Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Apr 17, 2005, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20050417205149.E13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504171226530.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>

(Dropped HPA from the CC line - I think he was only copied for the master.kernel.org issues.)

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:33:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote:
> > I still need to work out how to make my noddy script follow different
> > branches which may be present though.  However, for my common work
> > flow, it fits what I require.
> 
> The way to handle that is that you need to 
> 
>  - remember (or re-fetch) what the latest HEAD was that you merged with in 
>    my tree.
> 
>    if you didn't remember, you can just get all my objects and do a
> 
> 	merge-head $(cat .git/HEAD) $linus-current-head
> 
>    or something (using the current git archive that has a "merge-head" 
>    program. That gives you the most recent common head.

My script currently sends between two commit-ids, so...

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>  - use "rev-tree" to show reachability
> 
> 	rev-tree $my-current-head $last-merge-head
> 		| sort -n		# sort by date rather than sha1
> 		| cut -d' ' -f2		# get the sha1 + "flags" mask
> 		| grep :1		# show the ones that are only
> 					# reachable from $my-current-head
> 
> and you now have a nice list of sha1's ordered by date.

This will (and does) do exactly what I want. I'll also read into the above a request that you want it in forward date order. 8)

-- 
Russell King