Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:35:13 +0200

* Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]> wrote:

> the patches contain all the existing metadata, dates, log messages and 
> revision history. (What i think is missing is the BK tree merge 
> information, but i'm not sure we want/need to convert them to GIT.)

author names are abbreviated, e.g. 'viro' instead of 
[email-masked], and no committer information is 
included (albeit commiter ought to be Linus in most cases). These are 
limitations of the BK->CVS gateway i think.

	Ingo