Selecting the minor revs

Selecting the minor revs

[Greg Lee]

How do I select one of the "minor" bug fix revs using git?  For example I want to do a git
bisect between 2.6.15.6 and 2.6.16 but I cannot determine what the naming convention is
for "2.6.15.6".  I've tried "v2.6.15.6" and "v2.6.15-6".
 
Please cc any responses.

Thanks,
Greg Lee

Re: Selecting the minor revs

[sean]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:49:53 -0500
"Greg Lee" <glee@swspec.com> wrote:

> How do I select one of the "minor" bug fix revs using git?  For example I want to do a git
> bisect between 2.6.15.6 and 2.6.16 but I cannot determine what the naming convention is
> for "2.6.15.6".  I've tried "v2.6.15.6" and "v2.6.15-6".
>  
> Please cc any responses.


If you're interested in the stable-series releases of the kernel, unfortunately they're
not in the git repository.   On the otherhand if you're actually talking about the 
release candidates that Linus puts out before each new major version, the format is  
v2.6.16-rc2, v2.6.15-rc3  etc..

Sean

RE: Selecting the minor revs

[Greg Lee]

> If you're interested in the stable-series releases of the 
> kernel, unfortunately they're not in the git repository.

As I feared ... I'm curious, why?

Greg

Re: Selecting the minor revs

[sean]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:10:09 -0500
"Greg Lee" <glee@swspec.com> wrote:

> > If you're interested in the stable-series releases of the 
> > kernel, unfortunately they're not in the git repository.
> 
> As I feared ... I'm curious, why?

Because the stable-series is maintained by people other than Linus.   

They may have their own git tree, i'm not sure.  Even if they don't, 
you could create a stable-series branch and import the patches
into your git repo if it was something you needed often.

Sean

Re: Selecting the minor revs

[Yasushi SHOJI]

On 3/28/06, sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:10:09 -0500
> "Greg Lee" <glee@swspec.com> wrote:
>
> > > If you're interested in the stable-series releases of the
> > > kernel, unfortunately they're not in the git repository.
> >
> > As I feared ... I'm curious, why?
>
> Because the stable-series is maintained by people other than Linus.
>
> They may have their own git tree, i'm not sure.  Even if they don't,
> you could create a stable-series branch and import the patches
> into your git repo if it was something you needed often.

they do.  and you can just do, ie for 2.6.15.y

    git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.15.y.git
master:v2.6.15.y

you might wanna use --tags for fetch.  see git-fetch(1) for more detail.

see http://kernel.org/git/ for other stable branches.  and thanks for
stable branch maintainers.
--
       yashi