linux-kernel - Re: helping with tracking commits across repos

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Message-ID: <20130415183909.GQ2619@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:39:09 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	dmg <dmg@...c.ca>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: helping with tracking commits across repos

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:21:32AM -0700, dmg wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On 4/13/13, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
> > It should be possible to find such backported commits based on a simple
> > regex search over the commit message:
> 
> I took a more aggressive approach. I decided to look for 40 length
> character hashes in the
> comment and patch of the commit.
[...]
> hopefully this solves the use-case you described.

That's great, thankyou.

> The commit logs are being scanned as I write this. It should be done
> in a couple of hours.
 
By the way, I noticed that you're not HTML-escaping the commit
header.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus
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