From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:44:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([62.254.210.129]:2584 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8135889AbVKHSoN (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:44:13 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA8IjMbk012127; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:45:22 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jA8IjL7p012119; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:45:22 GMT Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:45:21 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Franck Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: git and tags... Message-ID: <20051108184521.GB2689@linux-mips.org> References: <20051108110134.GA2689@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 9451 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:25:06PM +0100, Franck wrote: > OK, so tags have been renamed into "linux-2.6.x". Why not using the > same mainline name convention (v2.6.x) ? The same reason that some people like blue and others prefer green ;-) > I have another question (which is the first one in my previous email), > how can I make my working tree a kernel version 2.6.9 for example ? git-read-tree $(cat .git/refs/tags/linux-2.6.9) git-checkout-index -f -a -u -q > And the last question related to mips git repository, why does kernel > v2.2, v2.4, v2.6 are in the same repository ? Why not seperate > different major version of the kernel in a seperate repository ? The extra space consumption for all these historic versions in a compressed git repository is extremly little. Ralf