Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
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Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
- Date
- May 12, 2005, 10:18 UTC
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- <3203.10.10.10.24.1115893120.squirrel@linux1>
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- <1115892451.16187.561.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2005 6:07 am, David Woodhouse said:
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> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 20:58 -0400, Sean wrote: >> > Try to find out the history of kernel.org/.../dwmw2/audit-2.6 in >> > correct order, using the available tools. >> > >> > Come back to me when you are done. >> >> Ask me any question that matters and i'll answer it with available >> tools. > > The above question matters, so please answer it if you can. I'll make it > clearer for you though... > > By 'correct order' Thomas means the order in which my old BK-export > script used to generate the "changesets since last release" web page; > the order in which the changes actually got merged into Linus' > repository. > > If I looked at the page yesterday, and then I look at it again today, I > want all the commits I hadn't seen already to be at the _top_. > Regardless of the date on which they were _originally_ committed to some > private tree elsewhere. > > There were a lot of complaints until I worked out how to get that > ordering out of BitKeeper. >
Does BK use a repo ID ? If not, can you not apply the same process to git? Seems the fast forward heads might complicate things slightly....
Sean