From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mansfield Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:38 -0400 Message-ID: <426437A2.7080903@cobite.com> References: <20050416131528.GB19908@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 19 00:38:23 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNes9-00022Y-E3 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:37:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261178AbVDRWln (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261179AbVDRWlm (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:42 -0400 Received: from iris.cobite.com ([208.222.83.2]:58571 "EHLO email-pri.cobite.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261178AbVDRWlk (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:40 -0400 Received: from localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325F597D59; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22220-08; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix, from userid 45000) id EE889987DD; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [208.222.80.105] (gandalf.cobite.com [208.222.80.105]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB49097D59; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:41:35 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Catalin Marinas In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cobite.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Catalin Marinas wrote: > Ingo Molnar 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. > Hmmm. I read that message just now. Is it a matter of 'perfection' that is the issue here, or actual correctness when applying the patches in order? (perhaps this has now been fixed). David