From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:54 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708131204220.25989@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BFBD18.50007@midwinter.com>
Hi,
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:
> 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-13 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-13 0:31 Integrating the kernel tree and lkml Jon Smirl
2007-08-13 2:08 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-13 11:04 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0708131204220.25989@racer.site \
--to=johannes.schindelin@gmx.de \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=jonsmirl@gmail.com \
--cc=koreth@midwinter.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).