maintenance releases in GIT tree

maintenance releases in GIT tree

[Horst Schirmeier]

Hi,

why are the maintenance releases (2.6.x.y -- those with a .y in their
version number) not stored in the git tree accessible via
rsync://rsync1.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/?
(Or -- are they, and I'm just not seeing them because I'm looking at the
wrong corner in the .git/ subdirectory?)

Shouldn't these minor changes be maintained in a branch for each
sublevel release? Or, if there's a reason not to do so, where is the
place they're being maintained at besides the main download locations
for patches?

Kind regards,
 Horst

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Re: maintenance releases in GIT tree

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:55:33AM +0100, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why are the maintenance releases (2.6.x.y -- those with a .y in their
> version number) not stored in the git tree accessible via
> rsync://rsync1.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/?
> (Or -- are they, and I'm just not seeing them because I'm looking at the
> wrong corner in the .git/ subdirectory?)

They are not released by Linus, so why would they be in his tree?  :)

As per the release announcements, they are located in either:
	pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/linux-2.6.15.y.git
or
	pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/linux-2.6.15.y.git
depending on who did the release.  Check the lkml message for specifics
on which it is.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h