Re: git trees which are not yet in linux-next

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 03 May 2008 03:19:00 +0200 Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 May 2008 15:12:06 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> The first
> >> problem is working out "how the heck did that patch get into linux-next"? 
> >> That would be much easier if the signoff trail was complete for git-based
> >> patches, but it often is not.
> > 
> > doh.  I'm pulling linux-next's constituent trees independently, so if I
> > spot a turd in linux-next I can just grep the various git trees to find out
> > where it came from.
> > 
> > It seems wrong though...
> 
> What about the committer info?  Well, I suppose a nobody@localhost slips 
> in, but more often I expect it to be something more telling than that.

Beats me.  To pick one example:

commit 1a72963d3af38eb17a939fc19b322735da1c0aad
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date:   Fri Apr 25 12:38:41 2008 -0400

    Convert board-nokia770 from semaphore to spinlock
    
    None of the operations done under the semaphore could sleep, so a spinlock
    is more appropriate to this case.
    
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>

There's no sign how that got there.  A bit of forensics shows up:

semaphore-removal       git     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git#semaphore-removal                                                  

in Next/Trees.  I don't actually have that tree in -mm, which is a bit
unusual.  Otherwise a grep for `Convert board-nokia770 from semaphore to
spinlock' would have found it.

Oh well, don't worry - I'll work it out ;)