Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

Michael J. Evans
2007-08-28T13:27:38Z

On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Aug 28 2007 06:08, Michael Evans wrote:
> >
> >Oh, I see. I forgot about the changelogs. I'd send out version 5
> >now, but I'm not sure what kernel version to make the patch against.
> >2.6.23-rc4 is on kernel.org and I don't see any git snapshots.
>
> 2.6.23-rc4 is a snapshot in itself, a tagged one at that.
> Just use git pull to get the latest, which is always good.
> Or git fetch; git checkout 2.6.23-rc4; if you need that particular one.
>
> >Additionally I never could tell what git tree was the 'mainline' as it
> >isn't labeled with such a keyword (at least in the list of git trees I
> >saw).
>
> /torvalds/linux-2.6.git or so; yes, it's not clearly marked. Then again,
why?
> /Mainline is tarballs for most people, and they don't want to go deeper ;-)
>
>
> Jan
> --
>

Thank you, I'll try to keep that in mind the next time I try to use git.