Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial patches for 3.3-rc1

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:20:52PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Tssk. Your script is broken, or your manual fixup is broken. Look at
> > the tag-name again.
> >
> > I pulled the correct one, but please be more careful.
> 
> Oh, and if it's because your old script can't verify the tag-names, so
> you fix things up by hand instead of scripting it, try using
> "tags/<tagname>" instead of just "<tagname>". That makes old git
> versions at least see the reference, even if they don't then react to
> the signing itself (ie they just treat it as the commit it points to,
> rather than as a tag with interesting contents in itself)

Ah, ok, I'll try that out.

Or I can spend the time to get the new version of git installed.
Wrestling with my scripts or rpm, I don't know which is worse...

greg k-h