Re: helping with tracking commits across repos

[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>]

Hi Daniel,

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:01:24AM -0700, D M German wrote:
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>  vinod> On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 13:22 -0700, D M German wrote:
>  vinod> > Hi Everybody,
>  vinod> > 
>  vinod> > I am professor of computer science at the University of Victoria
>  vinod> > (Canada).
>  vinod> > 
>  vinod> > During the last year and a half, we have been trying to track the
>  vinod> > commits as they move in the entire linux git repos ecosystem. We have
>  vinod> > amassed a good amount of data that tell us for every commit (and in fact
>  vinod> > for every unique patch inside a commit) where it has been and whether it
>  vinod> > has reached linus or not ---or any other repository, as a matter of
>  vinod> > fact.
>  vinod> i see some of the commits shown not in linus tree, although they are...
>  vinod> perhaps a bug?
>  vinod> http://o.cs.uvic.ca:20810/perl/cid.pl?cid=765024697807ad1e1cac332aa891253ca4a339da
>  vinod> 
>  vinod> It shows the same for linus's merge!
>  vinod> http://o.cs.uvic.ca:20810/perl/cid.pl?cid=cfb63bafdb87bbcdc5d6dbbca623d3f69475f118
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> Hi Vinod,
> 
> the tracking of the path-to-linus is something that is not done
> automatically yet (I have to start the process manually, as there are
> some issues I need to verify--it is a heuristic), but I plan to run it
> automatically.
> 
> Nonetheless, it might be run once a day, so the commits of the day will
> always be slightly behind.
> 
> One thing that will help me is that if any of you feel I am not tracking
> your repository, please send me an email with its address.

While looking at the repos list, I realised you are tracking some ubuntu
git trees that are not actually useful, namely:

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/roc/linux-2.6
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/net-next

I would like to ask if you could remove these two and add instead the
linux-3.5.y branch in the git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git repo
(I'm not sure if you track the branches separately).

Cheers,
--
Luis