From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 173-11-172-146-houston.txt.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.11.172.146] helo=mail.breakawaysystems.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFSNj-0000A0-QD for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:07:49 +0100 Received: by mail.breakawaysystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 037A51484C6; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:06:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (173-11.172.145-houston.txt.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.11.172.145]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dlambert) by mail.breakawaysystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6891E1480C4 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:06:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4CD803E8.8080805@lambsys.com> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:06:32 -0600 From: David Lambert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 173.11.172.146 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dave@lambsys.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Stable branch/tag? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:07:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am new to git and openembedded so please excuse another couple of naive questions. 1) What is a recommended stable branch/tag, and what command(s) are needed to obtain this? 2) Is there a document somwhere that explains the relevance of the use of branches and tags in this project? Thanks in advance for help, Dave. Listing git tags shows: git tag -l SlugOS5.3-beta mv-packages-to-recipes-post mv-packages-to-recipes-pre pre-nov2009-core-updates shr/testing2009-1rc1 tested_2010-10-14 tested_2010-10-25 tested_2010-10-29 testing_2010-08-23 testing_2010-08-30 testing_2010-09-07 testing_2010-09-13 testing_2010-09-20 testing_2010-09-27 testing_2010-10-08 and git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/bluelightning/opie-git remotes/origin/cbrake/qt-4.7.0 remotes/origin/darwin remotes/origin/fso/milestone5 remotes/origin/fso/milestone5.5 remotes/origin/holger/hash-style remotes/origin/holger/openmoko-merges remotes/origin/holger/qt4-4.7 remotes/origin/holger/qt4-sdk remotes/origin/holger/random-fixes remotes/origin/holger/staging-branch remotes/origin/ieee80215 remotes/origin/jan/master remotes/origin/john_lee/fastboot-devel remotes/origin/john_lee/openmoko-toolchain remotes/origin/kergoth/alternatives remotes/origin/kergoth/autotools remotes/origin/kergoth/bluez remotes/origin/kergoth/hostap-madwifi remotes/origin/kergoth/master remotes/origin/khem/import-linaro-gcc-4.5 remotes/origin/koen/darwin-host-fixes remotes/origin/koen/static-libs-rework remotes/origin/laibsch/scim remotes/origin/laibsch/wip remotes/origin/likewise/nios2 remotes/origin/master remotes/origin/morphis/for-upstream remotes/origin/nios2 remotes/origin/org.openembedded.angstrom-2007.12-stable remotes/origin/org.openembedded.dev remotes/origin/org.openembedded.documentation remotes/origin/org.openembedded.dreambox remotes/origin/org.openembedded.dreambox.release_25 remotes/origin/org.openembedded.oetest remotes/origin/org.openembedded.oz354fam083 remotes/origin/org.openembedded.oz354x remotes/origin/org.openembedded.packaged-staging remotes/origin/org.openembedded.slugos.5.3-beta remotes/origin/org.openembedded.stable remotes/origin/pb/toolchain-desuck remotes/origin/push/oe remotes/origin/raster remotes/origin/rik/amd64 remotes/origin/rik/qemu-0.12 remotes/origin/robertschuster/amd64-target remotes/origin/rpurdie/for-testing remotes/origin/rpurdie/work-in-progress remotes/origin/shared/blackfin remotes/origin/shared/xorg-7.4-update remotes/origin/shr/import remotes/origin/shr/merge remotes/origin/shr/stable2009 remotes/origin/shr/testing2009 remotes/origin/shr/testing2010 remotes/origin/shr/unstable remotes/origin/stable/2009 remotes/origin/stefan/eten-support remotes/origin/testing remotes/origin/testing-next remotes/origin/thesing/arm4-eabi-angstrom remotes/origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30 remotes/origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30-2010-10-16 remotes/origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30-20100317 remotes/origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30-20100930 remotes/origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30-at91sam9g45_m10 remotes/origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30.2 remotes/origin/woglinde/gettext remotes/origin/xora/angstrom-sqeeezy remotes/origin/xora/angstrom-srcpv