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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> External kernel projects sometimes work only against major
> releases--it's easier for their users/testers to find a major release
> than a random git version, and at least in the early prototype stage, it
> isn't critical to be working on the tip all the time.
>
> Is there a simple way to say, for example, "merge in all the upstream
> changes up to v2.6.15"?

I haven't tried this for some time, but I presume

	$ git pull linus tag v2.6.15

would do what you want.