Re: [git pull] ieee1394 tree for 2.6.18

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:06:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > 
> > the IEEE 1394 subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.18 are now staged in Ben's
> > revived linux1394 git tree. I guess the URL to pull from is
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/linux1394-2.6.git
> 
> I'm sure that URL works fine, but I want to see what I'm pulling before I 
> pull it, so _please_ use one of the scripts that generates diffstats and 
> shortlogs, or do it by hand..

Hrm...  That's actually one thing git might do - how hard would it be
to teach git-upload-pack to generate the diffstat and shortlog instead
of a pack?  It has all information needed for that, after all...

I mean, _you_ can ask that sort of summary, but when somebody else
wants to take a look at the summary of some branch in remote repository
mentioned on l-k, well...

If that's too much work server-side, could the result of git-fetch-pack -k
be easily postprocessed client-side to get the same result?  That's
easy to undo - just a single rm would do that...