From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:18:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <3203.10.10.10.24.1115893120.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <1115892451.16187.561.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Thu, May 12, 2005 6:07 am, David Woodhouse said:
> 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