From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:08:24 +0800 Message-ID: <46BFBD18.50007@midwinter.com> References: <9e4733910708121731h1245eab3h9e331de8285daf8a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Jon Smirl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 13 04:08:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKPMI-00079E-8r for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:08:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933874AbXHMCI3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:08:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933802AbXHMCI3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:08:29 -0400 Received: from tater2.midwinter.com ([216.32.86.91]:44913 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933742AbXHMCI2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:08:28 -0400 Received: (qmail 10835 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2007 02:08:28 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=kz2ONGZxFQjqAH5cFlw7bVe0QRWLc//2renauKU3B4UJsPDCnfrNWKM+hNZmU2fS ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Aug 2007 02:08:27 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708121731h1245eab3h9e331de8285daf8a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. Such a capability would also be a good integration point for bug tracking systems. -Steve