From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:30:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:50095 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S3466984AbVKHV3p (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:29:45 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EZb3X-0007mE-LK; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:31:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:31:03 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Franck , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: git and tags... Message-ID: <20051108213103.GA29835@nevyn.them.org> References: <20051108110134.GA2689@linux-mips.org> <20051108184521.GB2689@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051108184521.GB2689@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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: 9453 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: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:45:21PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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 IIUC, this is just "git checkout linux-2.6.9" nowadays. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC