From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:31:22 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910708121731h1245eab3h9e331de8285daf8a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Git Mailing List" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 13 02:31:29 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 1IKNqB-0000k5-RT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:31:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934257AbXHMAbZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:31:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933554AbXHMAbZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:31:25 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:60374 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758719AbXHMAbX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:31:23 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1666744wah for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:31:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SgmFo20w3gZ4d/WgXFY/+WrNYKTfD42twMZ2crdV5yXBaX23+K5m9jB7oUe7VyALXRfN1ZfhZJL/+F2EAQ+kuh8XJlvl7Y0dhxalmGwAFuC+Z/0vfH5hTuOi7YQ3GAhq/kICCXEazrEIaqaTbL7qz1Fmy/62Tq5B6G9oiMgipyo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=MeBoyimlJQaC6QDMFDg1Sih6cR9dNilYg9CdWeeumGfma9JdDhP9yq0VyuDC1xObqgNzcaDqP4jgXEZxUCScIbqlZ4PEgvFGXsq6OVvgA6t4nB5GF1zqio42k1NPuBetgmQqrsHLlYbyJ2uOnyR4DlzLpXSzGwDysGW7VVA8C34= Received: by 10.115.76.1 with SMTP id d1mr2323279wal.1186965082961; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.195.11 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com