From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:08:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml
Message-ID: <46BFBD18.50007@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708121731h1245eab3h9e331de8285daf8a@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:
> 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