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Re: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

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RLRob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date
Mar 24, 2006, 03:06 UTC
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On Thursday 23 March 2006 6:23 pm, sean wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:47:31 -0500
>
> Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 March 2006 12:03 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Pick another file, like the Makefile, to see what real history looks
> > > like (or, better yet, go into a different directory that actually sees
> > > more real work, like kernel/, and look at the history of files there).
> >
> > I was trying to find out when symlink support went in to gen_init_cpio.c,
> > so that was the only file that interested me.  I forgot that the
> > bitkeeper history never got moved over.
>
> Rob,
>
> You might be able to find what you need in the bk history imported into
> git as "Linux kernel history" by Thomas Gleixner on kernel.org:
>
> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=history;h=e7e1
>73af42dbf37b1d946f9ee00219cb3b2bea6a;f=usr/gen_init_cpio.c
>
> Sean

Ooh, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. (I already downloaded tarballs to check, but I've got the bookmark for future reference.)

Rob
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Message 6 of 6 in “Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?”
  1. Rob LandleyMar 23, 2006
  2. Josh BoyerMar 23, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMar 23, 2006
  4. Rob LandleyMar 23, 2006
  5. seanMar 23, 2006
  6. Rob LandleyMar 24, 2006

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