From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:07:42 GMT
Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format
Message-ID: <tnx4qe49z4h.fsf@arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050416131528.GB19908@elte.hu>

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.

-- 
Catalin