From: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>, barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: add helper for generating Origin-URL references
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:42:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3f6a49e-f029-4612-bc46-a801eee762f6@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251218151807.691382-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
On 2025-12-18 16:18, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> To improve tracking where code originated from, e.g. when porting from
> Linux or U-Boot, some recent commits have started using Origin-URL
> comments. Add a script that can generate them with the assumption that
> the origin project is checked out at exactly the version the code was
> copied from.
>
> Examples in Vim:
>
> # add into highlight URL pointing at specified file
> V:!git origin-url ../linux/lib/ucs2_string.c
>
> # as above, but consult buffer extension for comment style
> V:!git origin-url ../linux/lib/ucs2_string.c %
>
> # generate in snippet syntax
> V:!git origin-url -s ../linux/lib/ucs2_string.c
>
> This is mostly useful for new code that's being ported. It does have no
> support to find out similarity between the files specified.
>
> Cc: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
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