Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 03/03/13 17:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> I actually quite liked your merge shortlog, which of course I can generate
>> easily myself, but it was nice to have for free :)
> 
> No, you're right, I should do it. In fact, I should automate it better
> so that I do it by default and don't have to do so much hand-editing
> of the result of a (really) stupid shell script.
> 
> It's all based on just
> 
>     git log v3.8.. --author=Torvalds --merges |
>         egrep '^    ((Merge)|(Pull)) .* from '
> 
> and then some nasty sed+sort crud, followed by some manual fixup. It's
> the kind of thing perl is perfect for, but I'm not much of a perl
> person, so I have never written a *good* script to just do this right.
> 
> Anyway, here it is, the merge-log of stuff that happened in the merge
> window for 3.9.
> 
>                    Linus
> 
> ---

I suppose that this omits individual contributor patches by design?
I had 3 patches merged, but they are hidden by this method.


> James Bottomley:
>         first round of SCSI updates
>         SCSI updates

1 here

> Wim Van Sebroeck:
>         watchdog updates

1 here

and 1 merged by Linus Torvalds.


thanks,
-- 
~Randy