Re: Integrating the kernel tree and lkml

Jon Smirl wrote:

You could load the lkml history into the git db along with the kernel
tree. Then process the mailing list history to tie discussion threads
to commits. As you look at commits with gitk you could also see the
relevant messages on lkml.
  

That sounds a lot like the "notes" proposal that was discussed on this 
list a couple months back. It included a notion of "soft references" 
which were used to tie commits to the note objects; that would 
presumably apply to the mailing list messages as well. IIRC the 
implementation that was proposed had some issues. Not sure what happened 
to it in the end.

Such a capability would also be a good integration point for bug 
tracking systems.

-Steve