Re: Linux 2.6.16.58

Adrian Bunk
2008-01-17T21:50:50Z

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:12:05PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:34:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > do you insist on hearing the truth ("Sorry, I forgot to push."), or can
> > I tell you "I just wanted to see whether anyone notices." instead? ;-)
>
> :-)
>
> I think we should intentionally do this test once in a while. Two days
> ago I was informed that 2.6.20.21 (the latest 2.6.20 I pushed 3 months
> ago) was not clonable nor pullable due to a problem with the HEAD
> pointing to latest tag instead of latest commit. Since the error was
> also present in my local tree, I'm certain that it remained there
> unnoticed for 3 months !

According to git [1] Ralf merged 2.6.20.21 on 2007-10-18 into the 2.6.20
branch of his mips tree, so it must have been somehow possible...

> Cheers,
> Willy

cu
Adrian

[1] http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=shortlog;h=linux-2.6.20-stable

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