Re: Versioning of tree

Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21T16:51:34Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now, personally, I'd actually like to know the exact top-of-tree
> changeset, so I've considered having something that saves that one away,
> but then we'd need to do something about non-BK users (make the nightly
> snapshots squirrell it away somewhere too). That would solve both the
> module versioning _and_ the bug-report issue.

The nightly snapshots have been exporting this info since Day One, based
on your request ;-)

<snapshot>.key contains this info, e.g.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.9-bk1.key
is T.O.T. for