From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751686AbcFRQxv (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:53:51 -0400 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:36947 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751442AbcFRQxu (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:53:50 -0400 Subject: Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers To: Greg KH References: <20160618031620.GA14082@kroah.com> <20160618052959.GA11059@1wt.eu> <576564E2.5000705@roeck-us.net> <20160618163536.GA32242@kroah.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau , Kevin Hilman , Fengguang Wu , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <57657C86.8070908@roeck-us.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:53:26 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160618163536.GA32242@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/18/2016 09:35 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 08:12:34AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On 06/17/2016 10:29 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:16:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into >>>> a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them. >>>> >>>> I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git >>>> tree here: >>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git >>>> >>>> I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real" >>>> -rc release. Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on >>>> them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end. >>> >>> Do you mean you'll tag them when you issue a review ? If so, maybe that >>> can help our testers automatically trigger a series of tests when they >>> spot a tag that was not tested yet instead of having to monitor emails ? >>> If that's the case, I have no issue with pushing a tag when I emit a >>> series as well. >>> >> >> I think he means that the topmost patch is similar to the following >> (taken from 4.6.y). >> >> Guenter >> >> --- >> commit f1976bc9e10f2abcea081a9d8bcf05e8633ea6ab >> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> Date: Fri Jun 17 19:50:50 2016 -0700 >> >> Linux 4.6.3-rc1 >> >> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile >> index 93068c2..47737f2 100644 >> --- a/Makefile >> +++ b/Makefile >> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ >> VERSION = 4 >> PATCHLEVEL = 6 >> -SUBLEVEL = 2 >> -EXTRAVERSION = >> +SUBLEVEL = 3 >> +EXTRAVERSION = -rc1 >> NAME = Charred Weasel > > Yeah, right now my scripts add that. Is it worth me not having that > there until I do an -rc release? Or is it ok as-is? > Ok with me. The builders don't care. I use "git describe" to identify versions. Guenter