Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> 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