Ancient History

In OpenStack, we have a particular problem where much of the early development on the project was done using bzr and launchpad. All this history is in git, but it can be difficult to find the bzr merge proposal in launchpad which caused a given commit to be merged.

Here’s an example of how I did it yesterday.

We’re interested in commit 8aea573:

commit 8aea573bd2e44e152fb4ef1627640bab1818dede
Author: Trey Morris ...
Date:   Tue Dec 28 23:55:58 2010 -0600

    initial lock functionality commit

To trace back to the merge commit which merged this into master, I did:

$> git log --graph --topo-order --ancestry-path --merges 8aea573bd2e44e152fb4ef1627640bab1818dede..HEAD
* commit ae5dbe2b5d4871d3e26e859c03feab705c9c59ea
  Merge: 9eca4d5 76e3923
  Author: Trey Morris ...
  Date:   Fri Jan 7 00:49:30 2011 +0000
  
      This branch implements lock functionality. The lock is stored in the compute worker database. Decorators have been added to the opens
  
* commit f9c33f4ba09e02f8668bdd655b7acba15984838c
  Merge: ba245da 9eca4d5
  Author: Trey Morris ...
  Date:   Thu Jan 6 16:35:48 2011 -0600
  
      merged trunk
  
* commit f09d1ce4d38f3a8ef72566e95cde38f1dc1b8bed
  Merge: 9b9b5fe 9a84a2b
  Author: Trey Morris ...
  Date:   Wed Dec 29 15:13:24 2010 -0600
  
      fixed merge conflict with trunk

Double check that by looking at exactly what was merged in:

$> git diff 9eca4d5..ae5dbe2
diff --git a/nova/api/openstack/servers.py b/nova/api/openstack/servers.py
index ce64ac7..f8d5e76 100644
--- a/nova/api/openstack/servers.py
+++ b/nova/api/openstack/servers.py
@@ -170,6 +170,50 @@ class Controller(wsgi.Controller):
             return faults.Fault(exc.HTTPUnprocessableEntity())
         return exc.HTTPAccepted()
 
+    def lock(self, req, id):
...

That’s the one!

Now how to find the merge proposal? Simply googling for “This branch implements lock functionality” quickly lead me to the correct merge prop, but better ideas welcome 🙂