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From: john@jjdev.com (John de la Garza)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Update kernel source to latest?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:15:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140330031541.GA18930@vega.jjdev.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMo8Bf+C-ps-jHK6YA7u2Pa3YRY8xuah7UktTc13bNUkevESFg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:55:00AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:51 AM, habisravi <habisbc@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I cloned the linux kernel source from "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git". When i type "git tag" in the source folder i see version up to "v3.9-rc8", but kernel.org shows latest version is 3.14-rc8. How can i update my source repository to the latest.
> 
> Tags are sorted lexicographically, so v3.14-rc8 is < v3.9-rc8. Scroll
> up or pipe to less.

how about version sort

git tag  | sort -V

      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-30  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-30  0:51 Update kernel source to latest? habisravi
2014-03-30  1:50 ` Amit Saha
2014-03-30  1:55 ` Max Filippov
2014-03-30  3:15   ` John de la Garza [this message]

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