Re: Fwd: git-reviewed: linking commits to review discussion in git

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:12:48PM -0500, Murtuza Mukadam wrote:

quoted

We have linked peer review discussions on
git@vger.kernel.org to their respective commits within the main
git.git repository. You can view the linked reviews from 2012
until present in the GitHub repo at:
https://github.com/mmukadam/git/tree/review

Neat. We've experimented in the past with mapping commits back to
mailing list discussions.  Thomas (cc'd) has a script that creates
git-notes trees mapping commits to the relevant message-id, which can
then be found in the list archive.

To me, the interesting bits of such a project are:

  1. How do we decide which messages led to which commits? There is
     definitely some room for heuristics here, as patches are sometimes
     tweaked in transit, or come in multiple stages (e.g., the original
     patch, then somebody suggests a fixup on top). You might want to
     compare your work with the script from Thomas here:

       http://repo.or.cz/w/trackgit.git

Eh, or don't.  My script nowadays uses Junio's suggestion of matching on
(author, authordate) with a little bit of tweaking in case there is no
match.  The name/date match works for most cases even in slightly
tweaked forms.

(The very first version elaborately tried all sorts of things, including
attempting to patch on master, next etc. to see where it applies, and
turned out to be waaaay too slow.)

I'm no longer convinced that there's anything a computer can do beyond
(author, authordate), anyway.  Perhaps someone with a clue in UIs --
that's definitely not me -- could make a website where users can
complete or correct the autogenerated mappings to go further.

-- 
Thomas Rast
tr@thomasrast.ch