Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues withrecent mm's and udev)

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:12 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 02:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Should it be backed out of 2.6.11.8? Possibly - but if it will be
> > > part of 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 then I would be inclined to leave it.
> > > 
> > > Andrew asks whether it should be removed from -mm.
> > 
> > It was merged into Linus's tree on March 8th (via bk, thank gawd.  How do
> > you find out that sort of info using git?  Generating a full log is
> > cheating).
> 
> Well, moving offtopic, but it is of relevance to people who use git.
> The answer is that the information exists (we can use the commit tree to
> reconstruct the file data) but that no-one has yet come up with a file
> history viewing tool.  I think David Woodhouse is the closest to
> producing one of these, David?

Here (replace f=<file>):
  http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=lib/kobject.c

Or use Chris Mason's perl script:
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111468881317040&w=2

I've attached it, updated to the recent git-* rename.

Thanks,
Kay

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