Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

Dave Jones
2004-05-28T15:21:40Z

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:07:40AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:24:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Not in any useful way. If I go look at the file history, which is what
> > I'm going to do when tracking down a bug, all I see on the files included
> > in this changeset is akpm@osdl.org.
> >
> > That means any annotated listing (BK or CVS blame) shows the wrong author.
>
> One of the ways that I often use for tracking down potential fixes is
> to simply do "bk changes > /tmp/foo" and then use emacs's incremental
> search to look for interesting potential changes. (I know, you're
> probably throwing up all over your keyboard just about now. :-)
>
> One "interesting" thing I've wished for is to be able to do "bk
> revtool drivers/net/wireless/airo.c", and then when I put my mouse
> over a particular line number, have it display in a little popup box
> the changelog description of whatever line my mouse happened to
> be over.

bk revtool $filename
ctrl-c in the gui that pops up
click line that looks interesting - jumps to the cset with
commit comments.

That what you meant ?

Dave