Re: gitweb: kernel versions in the history (feature request, probably)

Petr Baudis wrote, On 11/20/2007 10:59 PM:

  Hi,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:

quoted

I see gitweb is much more usable (faster) than a few months ago, but
there is one thing a bit problematic: in the history of patches I'm
very often interested in which kernel version of Linus' tree the patch
appeared for the first time. If it's not some big problem, and maybe
somebody else finds this useful too, I'd really appreciate adding such
a feature.

  in git terms, you'd like gitweb to provide output for command:

	git describe --contains

This is interesting feature request. I guess the support would be nice,
though in theory this operation can be a bit resource-intensive in case
there is not many tags and a lot of development (with uncached
repository, this query took quite a bit of time on my copy of the kernel
git tree). Probably this should be an optional feature and somehow dwell
on a separate page, which doesn't fit too well in the current gitweb
page structure...

 

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. And it
would suffice if it were shown on the commit page only. But, of course,
it's not urgent at all! (And alas I'm no webmaster, so I can miss
something.)

quoted

Petr, I hope there is no necessity to subscribe to the git list for
this one question, so I'd really feel greteful for forwarding, if you
find this request reasonable.

  Yes, there is no necessity - you can post this on the git mailing list
without subscribing yourself.

Great! I misunderstood the page message. Btw., I know it's not the kernel,
but IMHO there should be some place for it in the MAINTAINERS!

Thanks,
Jarek P.