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Integrating the kernel tree and lkml

Subject: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml

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Jon Smirl· Aug 13, 2007, 00:31 UTC · lore

The thread about using a news reader to read the git history caused me wonder if are other synergies between git and the mail/news world.

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.

Of course post processing lkml may not tie the threads to the commits very well. But if we built something like this we could start putting the right clues into the threads to make sure they get linked to the commits properly in the future. For example you could link an existing thread by including the sha1 of the commit in a reply.

The git kernel history is about three years old. How big is three years of lkml put into git and packed? A db like this may not be for everyone but it could always live on a server with web access.

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Jon Smirl
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Steven Grimm· Aug 13, 2007, 02:08 UTC · re: Jon Smirl · lore

Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml

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

Johannes Schindelin· Aug 13, 2007, 11:04 UTC · re: Steven Grimm · lore

Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

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> 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