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Re: [RFC/RFH] Fun things with git-notes, or: patch tracking backwards

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Feb 10, 2009, 23:12 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > I have imported all commits, and mails since roughly July 2008
> > (starting with Gmane 89000).  In this timeframe there were 1802
> > non-merge commits, and the mailnotes tree now holds 1122 annotations.
> 
> How do you match the mails to commits?
> 
> I am curious what the right balance for the matching algorithm should be,
> between being forgiving about amending of commit log message and the patch
> text to fix minor typos and obvious bugs, and being strict not to cause
> false matches to a message that contains the second iteration of the
> patch, when what was committed was the first iteration.

Right now it's just the patch-id. Maybe filtering (author,subject) and then picking the one that is the most similar could work.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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