From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6FBA1CAF for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (relay5-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.197]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF6C37D5 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:14:12 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: Daniel Vetter Message-ID: <20180911011412.GA19044@localhost> References: <20180910153806.GR16300@sasha-vm> <2789743.8CivUegSaj@avalon> <20180910213019.GB2579@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: James Bottomley , ksummit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 01:16:18AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:59:26PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> One of the issues here is that patch series don't have fixed boundaries over > >> their lifetime, the same way patches don't. A patch can evolve in scope from > >> version to version, and similarly so can a patch series. It's not uncommon for > >> patches to be dropped or added and for series to be split or merged. I've in > >> the past incorporated part of an RFC patch series in the v1 of a series with a > >> larger scope (after discussing it with the original developer of course). > > > > I do have some tools and algorithms that could be adapted to help > > cross-match patch series and show how they evolve over time. It isn't > > that hard to detect patch reordering and show interdiffs between > > corresponding patches. Extending that to match patches between series > > isn't much harder. > > Is that built on top of the new git range-diff tool, or at least that > concept? Or something else? Same concept, just a different implementation of an algorithm comparable to tbdiff's.