On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:55:27AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 01:28:38PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:05 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > The only time git gets involved is when we do a -rc release or when we > > > do a "real" release, and then we use 'git quiltimport' on the whole > > > stack. > > > > > > Here's a script that I use (much too slow, I know), for checking this > > > type of thing and I try to remember to run it before every cycle of -rc > > > releases: > > > https://github.com/gregkh/commit_tree/blob/master/find_fixes_in_queue > > > > > > It's a hack, and picks up more things than is really needed, but I would > > > rather it error on that side than the other. > > > > Yes, my script is similar. Looks like yours also runs on a git tree. > > > > I noticed that id_fixed_in runs `git grep -l --threads=3 <sha>` to > > find fixes; that's neat, I didn't know about `--threads=`. I tried it > > with ae46578b963f manually: > > > > $ git grep -l --threads=3 ae46578b963f > > $ > > > > Should it have found a7889c6320b9 and 773e0c402534? Perhaps `git log > > --grep=<sha>` should be used instead? I thought `git grep` only greps > > files in the archive, not commit history? > > Yes, it does only grep the files in the archive. > > But look closer at the archive that this script lives in :) > > This archive is a "blown up" copy of the Linux kernel tree, with one > file per commit. The name of the file is the commit id, and the content > of the file is the changelog of the commit itself. > > So it's a hack that I use to be able to simply search the changelogs of > all commits to find out if they have a "Fixes:" tag with a specific > commit id in it. > > So in your example above, in the repo I run it and get: > > ~/linux/stable/commit_tree $ git grep -l --threads=3 ae46578b963f > changes/5.2/773e0c40253443e0ce5491cb0e414b62f7cc45ed > ids/5.2 > > Which shows me that in commit 773e0c402534 ("afs: Fix > afs_xattr_get_yfs() to not try freeing an error value") in the kernel > tree, it has a "Fixes:" tag that references "ae46578b963f". > > It also shows me that commit ae46578b963f was contained in the 5.2 > kernel release, as I use the "ids/" subdirectory here for other fast > lookups (it's a tiny bit faster than 'git describe --contains'). > > I don't know how your script is walking through all possible commits to > see if they are fixing a specific one, maybe I should look and see if > it's doing it better than my "git tree/directory as a database hack" > does :) FWIW, I had a need for something similar and found `git rev-list --grep` provided fastest results. Does not provide for the "ids/" hack though... ❯ N="ae46578b963f"; git rev-list --grep="${N}" "${N}..upstream/master" | while read -r hid ; do git log -n1 "${hid}" | grep -F "${N}" | sed "s#^#${hid} #"; done a7889c6320b9200e3fe415238f546db677310fa9 Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs") 773e0c40253443e0ce5491cb0e414b62f7cc45ed Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs") ❯ N="a7889c6320b9"; git rev-list --grep="${N}" "${N}..stable/linux-5.4.y" | while read -r hid ; do git log -n1 "${hid}" | grep -F "${N}" | sed "s#^#${hid} #"; done 6712b7fcef9d1092e99733645cf52cfb3d482555 commit a7889c6320b9200e3fe415238f546db677310fa9 upstream. ❯ N="ae46578b963f"; git rev-list --grep="${N}" "${N}..stable/linux-5.4.y" | while read -r hid ; do git log -n1 "${hid}" | grep -F "${N}" | sed "s#^#${hid} #"; done 6712b7fcef9d1092e99733645cf52cfb3d482555 Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs") 773e0c40253443e0ce5491cb0e414b62f7cc45ed Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs") > > thanks, > > greg k-h
