Re: GIT tags

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com> [071022 06:03]:
> Hi Iqbal,
> 
> On 10/22/07, Iqbal <iqbal@ti.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see that the kernel is advanced from 2.6.23-rc8 to 2.6.23.
> > When I do a git-tag -l, at the end I can only see 2.6.23-rc4 and not 2.6.23 or any tags between these two.
> >
> > So, what I understand is "this list doesn't mess up with the tags", the tags are coming from Linus/kernel.org.
> > And, there is no hard fast rule that tags are always updated.
> 
> True. You need to do "git fetch tags" for upstream. Looks like Tony
> had not fetched tags from kernel.org.
> 
> >
> > Pl. correct me If I my understanding is wrong.
> >
> > Also,
> >
> > How can I get the date when I did the last git-pull/git-fetch?
> 
> If you are not messing with your master branch then it will also point
> you the latest pulled commit and ofcourse date for that commit.
> 
> > If there are any good pointers on versioning please pass it on.
> >
> 
> If you mean the kernel versioning scheme then there are various
> discussion threads and lwn.net articles/presentations might help.

Sorry, sometimes I forget to do git-pull --tags from the mainline tree.
I'll update the tags in linux-omap tree shortly.

Tony