On Nov 21, 2007 8:52 AM, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:20:09PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:30:23AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > I don't know git, but it seems, at least if done for web only, this > > > shouldn't be so 'heavy'. It could be a 'simple' translation of commit > > > date by querying a small database with kernel versions & dates. > > > > If I create a commit in my linux working repo today, but Linus doesn't > > merge it into his repository until after he releases 2.6.24, then my > > commit will be created with an earlier date than 2.6.24, even though it > > isn't included until 2.6.25. > > > > So you have to actually examine the history graph to figure this out > > this sort of thing. > > Of course, you are right, and I probably miss something, but to be > sure we think about the same thing let's look at some example: so, I > open a page with current Linus' tree, go to something titled: > /pub/scm / linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git / history > > and see: > 2007-10-10 Stephen Hemminger [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent ... > and just below something with 2007-08-14 date. > > Accidentally, I can remember this patch introduced many changes, and > this big interval in dates suggests some waiting. Then I look at the > commit, and there are 2 dates visible, so the patch really was created > earlier. Then I go back to: > /pub/scm / linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git / summary > > and at the bottom I can see this: > > ... > tags > 4 days ago v2.6.24-rc3 Linux 2.6.24-rc3 > 2 weeks ago v2.6.24-rc2 Linux 2.6.24-rc2 > 4 weeks ago v2.6.24-rc1 Linux 2.6.24-rc1 > 6 weeks ago v2.6.23 Linux 2.6.23 > > which drives me crazy, because, without looking at the calendar, and > calculator, I don't really know which month was 6 weeks ago, and 4 > days ago, either! > > So, I go to the: http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/, > do some scrolling, look at this: > ChangeLog-2.6.23 09-Oct-2007 20:38 3.8M > > and only now I can guess, this napi patch didn't manage to 2.6.23. > Of course, usually I've to do a few more clicks and reading to make > sure where it really started. > > So, this could suggest this 2007-10-10 (probably stored with time > too), could be useful here... but it seems, I'm wrong. > > Of course, this problem doesn't look so hard if we forget about > git internals: I can imagine keeping a simple database, which > could simply retrieve commit numbers from these ChangeLogs, and > connecting this with gitweb's commit page as well... For > performance reasons, doing it only for stable and testing, so with > -rc 'precision' would be very helpful too. The "plain" view of the patch has the "version" included: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:41:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects. X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1454^2~841 Is that what you are looking for? Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
