Re: helping with tracking commits across repos

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Apr 15 2013 - 14:39:32 EST


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:21:32AM -0700, dmg wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 4/13/13, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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