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Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

Subject: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

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6 messages between Mar 23, 2006 and Mar 24, 2006.

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Rob Landley· Mar 23, 2006, 16:43 UTC · lore

When I go to kernel.org, click the tiny C next to linus's name to get the git browser for the tree, click "tree", click the "usr" directory, and then click "history" next to the file gen_init_cpio.c, it says this file appeared out of thin air 59 minutes ago.

This is not the case.

>From this link:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;h=bc589b0ffba8941b7f7574b71ddec795e2217107;hb=b0e6e962992b76580f4900b166a337bad7c1e81b;f=usr

I wind up with this link:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;h=b0e6e962992b76580f4900b166a337bad7c1e81b;f=usr/gen_init_cpio.c

Which shows exactly one change.

Am I doing something wrong?

Rob

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Josh Boyer· Mar 23, 2006, 16:51 UTC · re: Rob Landley · lore

Re: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

On 3/23/06, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:

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> When I go to kernel.org, click the tiny C next to linus's name to get the git
> browser for the tree, click "tree", click the "usr" directory, and then click
> "history" next to the file gen_init_cpio.c, it says this file appeared out of
> thin air 59 minutes ago.
>
> This is not the case.

Linus' tree only goes back to 2.6.12 or so. I think you're just seeing the fact that it's the first commit to that file since it was initially imported.

josh

Linus Torvalds· Mar 23, 2006, 17:03 UTC · re: Rob Landley · lore

Re: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

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>
> When I go to kernel.org, click the tiny C next to linus's name to get the git 
> browser for the tree, click "tree", click the "usr" directory, and then click 
> "history" next to the file gen_init_cpio.c, it says this file appeared out of 
> thin air 59 minutes ago.

It does?

For me, it says that the file has no history at all. Which is true. It hasn't been changed since it was imported, and normally git doesn't show the root commit at all (exactly because it's the "import" commit).

Now, gitweb _could_ use the "--root" flag to git-diff-tree to also show the root commit as a diff against nothingness, and then each file would always have at least _one_ history entry, but if you want that, you might as well just click the "blob" button instead, that shows what the file is.

The one commit you see (the "[PATCH] reduce size of bio mempools" thing in the header at the thing) is _not_ part of the file history: it's your starting point for history searching. In other words, it's the top commit that you do your history _off_.

Pick another file, like the Makefile, to see what real history looks like (or, better yet, go into a different directory that actually sees more real work, like kernel/, and look at the history of files there).

			Linus

Rob Landley· Mar 23, 2006, 22:47 UTC · re: Linus Torvalds · lore

Re: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

On Thursday 23 March 2006 12:03 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> Pick another file, like the Makefile, to see what real history looks like
> (or, better yet, go into a different directory that actually sees more
> real work, like kernel/, and look at the history of files there).

I was trying to find out when symlink support went in to gen_init_cpio.c, so that was the only file that interested me. I forgot that the bitkeeper history never got moved over.

Thanks,

Rob

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sean· Mar 23, 2006, 23:23 UTC · re: Rob Landley · lore

Re: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:47:31 -0500 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:

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> On Thursday 23 March 2006 12:03 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Pick another file, like the Makefile, to see what real history looks like
> > (or, better yet, go into a different directory that actually sees more
> > real work, like kernel/, and look at the history of files there).
> 
> I was trying to find out when symlink support went in to gen_init_cpio.c, so 
> that was the only file that interested me.  I forgot that the bitkeeper 
> history never got moved over.
>

Rob,

You might be able to find what you need in the bk history imported into git as "Linux kernel history" by Thomas Gleixner on kernel.org:

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=history;h=e7e173af42dbf37b1d946f9ee00219cb3b2bea6a;f=usr/gen_init_cpio.c

Sean

Rob Landley· Mar 24, 2006, 03:06 UTC · re: sean · lore

Re: Who do I report bugs in the git source web browser thing to?

On Thursday 23 March 2006 6:23 pm, sean wrote:

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> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:47:31 -0500
>
> Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 March 2006 12:03 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Pick another file, like the Makefile, to see what real history looks
> > > like (or, better yet, go into a different directory that actually sees
> > > more real work, like kernel/, and look at the history of files there).
> >
> > I was trying to find out when symlink support went in to gen_init_cpio.c,
> > so that was the only file that interested me.  I forgot that the
> > bitkeeper history never got moved over.
>
> Rob,
>
> You might be able to find what you need in the bk history imported into
> git as "Linux kernel history" by Thomas Gleixner on kernel.org:
>
> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=history;h=e7e1
>73af42dbf37b1d946f9ee00219cb3b2bea6a;f=usr/gen_init_cpio.c
>
> Sean

Ooh, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. (I already downloaded tarballs to check, but I've got the bookmark for future reference.)

Rob

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