Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

Stelian Pop
2005-02-05T19:40:02Z

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:31:53AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:

> Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> :
> [...]
> > Now, suppose one of my patches introduced a problem. How can someone
> > not using BK isolate the patch which introduced the problem ? All he
> > can do is to back out the entire set of patches, and the whole point
> > of having split the patch initialy into logical changes is lost.
>
> Nope: he digs the bk-commit mailing list archives.
>
> For example, from Roland's mail
> 2005/01/31 01:37:39-05:00 len.brown
> 2005/01/31 01:35:48-05:00 len.brown
> 2005/01/31 00:15:20-05:00 len.brown
> 2005/01/31 00:12:40-05:00 len.brown
> [etc.]
>
> $ grep +/^ChangeSet.*2005/01/31.*len.brown ~/Mail/linux/bk-commit/200505
> ChangeSet 1.1983.5.2, 2005/01/31 00:15:20-05:00, len.brown@intel.com
> ChangeSet 1.1938.498.11, 2005/01/31 00:12:40-05:00, len.brown@intel.com
> ChangeSet 1.1983.5.3, 2005/01/31 01:37:39-05:00, len.brown@intel.com
> ChangeSet 1.1938.498.12, 2005/01/31 01:35:48-05:00, len.brown@intel.com
>
> Same thing as in Roland's mail but the changes are isolated.

Interesting, I fergot about those commit mails, thanks for remining
me.

I think those emails could provide the missing piece of the puzzle
and we could generate the missing branches based on them.

Stelian.
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