Re: linux-2.6.21-gitN - versioning question

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[David Woodhouse - Sun, May 13, 2007 at 02:26:40PM +0800]
| On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
| > On May 12 2007 21:44, David Woodhouse wrote:
| > >On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:19 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| > >> Actually I think it would be convenient if such tags (like
| > >> v.2.6.21-git16) were in Linus' git tree too.
| > >
| > >Then there would be _lots_ of tags in the master tree -- I'm not sure we
| > >want that.
| > >
| > >I suppose I could put a tree on kernel.org which _does_ have the tags,
| > >and which precisely matches Linus' tree in every other way... but then
| > >again, you could do that too by just rsyncing the tags yourself :)
| > 
| > Are you saying GIT tags are expensive, compared to, say, SVN tags?
| 
| I wasn't saying that -- I've no idea how expensive SVN tags are. But I
| was of the opinion that GIT tags aren't free -- I thought I'd seen
| git-pull explicitly checking (with one round-trip latency) that it has
| the corresponding commit for every tag it knows about.
| 
| -- 
| dwmw2
| 

Btw David who does release a such snapshots (like git16)? You or Linus?

		Cyrill