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Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml

From
Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2007, 02:08 UTC
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Jon Smirl wrote:
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> You could load the lkml history into the git db along with the kernel
> tree. Then process the mailing list history to tie discussion threads
> to commits. As you look at commits with gitk you could also see the
> relevant messages on lkml.
>

That sounds a lot like the "notes" proposal that was discussed on this list a couple months back. It included a notion of "soft references" which were used to tie commits to the note objects; that would presumably apply to the mailing list messages as well. IIRC the implementation that was proposed had some issues. Not sure what happened to it in the end.

Such a capability would also be a good integration point for bug tracking systems.

-Steve
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