From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:28:49 +0000 Subject: Re: patches added to release/test trees Message-Id: <1539.1151018929@ocs3.ocs.com.au> List-Id: References: <200601270107.k0R17838011430@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200601270107.k0R17838011430@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org "Luck, Tony" (on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:34:06 -0700) wrote: >> BTW, is there any reason that the aegl git tree has no tags? > >I haven't thought of any useful way to use tags. But perhaps it's >becuase I mostly think of my GIT trees as conduits to Linus/Andrew. >If you have suggestions on how I can make my trees more useful to >you by tagging things, then let me know. Not adding your own tags, but Linus's tags are missing from the ia64 tree. For some reason, just copying .git/refs/tags from the torvalds git tree does not work, git-branch complains about invalid objects. I thought that tags were portable between trees with common ancestors. git-clone .../git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6 git-clone .../git/aegl/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6-ia64 cp -a linux-2.6/.git/refs/tags/* linux-2.6-ia64/.git/refs/tags/ cd linux-2.6-ia64 git-branch error: refs/tags/v2.6.11 does not point to a valid commit object! error: refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree does not point to a valid commit object! ... error: refs/tags/v2.6.17-rc5 does not point to a valid commit object! error: refs/tags/v2.6.17-rc6 does not point to a valid commit object! origin * release test