Re: helping with tracking commits across repos

[D M German <dmg@uvic.ca>]

 vinod> 
 vinod> 
 vinod> 
 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
 
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.

thank you!

--daniel


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