Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can you give me the commit id in your tree so I can run a few tests?
> > 
> > Let me re-quote what you quoted above:
> > 
> > > > > > I've attached the full commit below. [...]
> 
> Let me re-quote James:
> 
>  "Can you give me the commit id in your tree so I can run a few tests?"
> 
> He wanted the tree. So that he can run tests on his machinery. His 
> machinery that does _not_ take some emailed commit description, but 
> works on git trees.
> 
> So Ingo, if you want to be snarky about quoting people, at least be 
> snarky with a reason.

The commit i quoted had the commit ID on its first line (i did that so 
because i anticipated someone wanting to check my tree), but here it is 
again plus the (well-known to James) URI of the -tip tree:

  > From eae0c9dfb534cb3449888b9601228efa6480fdb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git

Thanks,

	Ingo