From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262685AbTDZRcz (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:32:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262687AbTDZRcz (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:32:55 -0400 Received: from lmail.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:56493 "EHLO smtp1.actcom.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262685AbTDZRcy (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:32:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3EAAC588.9010806@shemesh.biz> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:44:40 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en, he MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Zack Brown , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ChangeLog suggestion References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: >The thing is, the stuff that already _is_ in the changelog is certainly >enough to identify the email if you just have a reasonable search engine. >You have author, comments and diff, and if that isn't enough to identify >the thing then something is wrong. > > Slightly OT: Note that the "author" info is only semi readable from CVS. It contains just the user part of the email address (in my case - "lkml" for spam reasons - hardly a unique identifier). I'm told that under BK it has the full email, so I'm not sure where that stands there. This does mean that under CVS, this info is not searchable, nor even guarenteed unique. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/