From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Tom Gall <tom.gall@linaro.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>,
patches@kernelci.org,
Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>,
linux- stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.50-stable review
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:34:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170914053437.GA15810@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170914021803.GA30154@1wt.eu>
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 04:18:03AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:30:46PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Yes. I don't recall if it is a direct --force or if you would have to
> > > remove the original tag first (with git push <repo> :refs/tags/<tag>).
> >
> > Ah, but then if someone had pulled the old tag, they would have to
> > delete it locally before they can pull in the new one. That's the main
> > reason I'll not do this...
>
> In fact not, the tags are automatically replaced upon pull. I've been
> using such a crappy workflow for some time in the past, sharing human
> errors with coworkers... Git is pretty tolerant to this. It's just
> that it's terribly confusing because you can then have two people with
> the same tag name pointing to different commit IDs, I really hate this,
> it only works when all users are in the same office and you shout
> "sorry I messed up, I'm pushing the tag again".
>
> > Again, use the make command that we have just for this reason...
>
> It also has the benefit of always reporting the same version for all
> users including those only downloading the -rc patch.
>
It reports the same version, but it is not necessarily the same code.
There are cases where a rc is updated, but not the Makefile. That happens
quite a lot, actually. This is similar to mainline, which currently
claims to be v4.13.0 until -rc1, then it claims to be -rc1 until -rc2,
and so on.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-14 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-12 16:58 [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.50-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 01/14] mtd: nand: mxc: Fix mxc_v1 ooblayout Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 02/14] mtd: nand: qcom: fix read failure without complete bootchain Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 03/14] mtd: nand: qcom: fix config error for BCH Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 04/14] nvme-fabrics: generate spec-compliant UUID NQNs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 05/14] btrfs: resume qgroup rescan on rw remount Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 06/14] selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 07/14] mm/memory.c: fix mem_cgroup_oom_disable() call missing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 09/14] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 10/14] Bluetooth: Properly check L2CAP config option output buffer length Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 11/14] ARM64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: Fix GIC maintenance interrupt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 12/14] ARM: 8692/1: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 13/14] NFS: Fix 2 use after free issues in the I/O code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-12 16:58 ` [PATCH 4.9 14/14] NFS: Sync the correct byte range during synchronous writes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-13 0:11 ` [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.50-stable review Shuah Khan
2017-09-13 2:27 ` Tom Gall
2017-09-13 3:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-13 15:05 ` Tom Gall
2017-09-13 15:22 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-09-13 16:36 ` Mark Brown
2017-09-13 18:38 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-09-13 18:55 ` Mark Brown
2017-09-13 18:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-13 19:12 ` Mark Brown
2017-09-13 19:18 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-09-13 21:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-13 22:08 ` Mark Brown
2017-09-14 2:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2017-09-14 5:34 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2017-09-14 22:57 ` Kevin Hilman
2017-09-13 14:33 ` Guenter Roeck
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