From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:04:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708131204220.25989@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46BFBD18.50007@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

> 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.

FWIW I planned to continue working on the notes post 1.5.3.

Ciao,
Dscho