Re: full kernel history, in patchset format
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- David Mansfield <david@cobite.com>
- Date
- Apr 18, 2005, 22:41 UTC
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- <426437A2.7080903@cobite.com>
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- <tnx4qe49z4h.fsf@arm.com>
Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > >>i've converted the Linux kernel CVS tree into 'flat patchset' format, >>which gave a series of 28237 separate patches. (Each patch represents a >>changeset, in the order they were applied. I've used the cvsps >>utility.) > > > AFAIK, cvsps uses the date/time to create the changesets. There is a > problem with the BKCVS export since some files in the same commit can > have a different time (by an hour). I posted a mail some time ago > about this - > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110026570201544&w=2 > > I read that the old history won't be merged into the new repository > but, if you are interested, I have a script that can do this based on > the "(Logical change ...)" string in the file commit logs and it is > quite fast at generating the patches. >
Hmmm. I read that message just now. Is it a matter of 'perfection' that is the issue here, or actual correctness when applying the patches in order?
(perhaps this has now been fixed).
David