Re: Tracking release dates for pieces of code
Larry McVoy <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:56:18AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > This question was prompted by my experiences using BitKeeper (and its WWW > interface) to track pieces of code in the Linux kernel. > > Is there any easy way to find out in which release a > particular line of code first appeared? > > The Changeset timestamps don't help, because they reflect the date when > the code was first merged into _any_ BitKeeper repository, not the > official one at bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6. > > It would be simple to get the necessary information if the WWW interface > could display the state of the source files as of a particular tag date. > However, AFAICS there's no way to do it, and BitKeeper doesn't even track > the relevant dates and times. > > Can anyone help? We maintain this information internally for the linux 2.5/2.6 tree going back 2003/02/04. We have 1945 distinct snapshots recorded. At some point we plan to integrate this information into the BK/Web servers on bkbits.net but it isn't a high priority. We are archiving the info though. To some extent, you can get this from the BK2CVS gateway. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com _______________________________________________ Bitkeeper-users mailing list [email protected] http://bitmover.com/mailman/listinfo/bitkeeper-users To unsubscribe from this list, go to the above URL, follow instruction at the bottom of the web page.