Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753060Ab3EHSsi (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 14:48:38 -0400 Received: from lake.fysh.org ([81.94.195.195]:47025 "EHLO lake.fysh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752731Ab3EHSsh (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 14:48:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 19:48:36 +0100 From: Athanasius To: Greg KH , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linux 3.9.1 Message-ID: <20130508184836.GD4169@fysh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Greg KH , linux-kernel References: <20130508041010.GA17374@kroah.com> <20130508072245.GB4169@fysh.org> <20130508175020.GA17950@kroah.com> <20130508181943.GC4169@fysh.org> <20130508182837.GA26128@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130508182837.GA26128@kroah.com> X-gpg-fingerprint: E218CE1D X-gpg-key: http://www.fysh.org/~athan/gpg-key User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1871 Lines: 41 On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:28:37AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:19:43PM +0100, Athanasius wrote: > > 'uname -r' says I was. Also 'git log' for my v3.8 branch currently on > > 3.8.9 via the 'master' method does include at least the top few commits > > listed on: > > > > > > > > Of course only having gotten to 3.8.9 a pull against linux-3.8.y does > > see changes. Perhaps someone else, or a script on git.kernel.org was > > merging into master before and now isn't ? > > No, nothing was ever mergeing into master in the linux-stable git tree. > You might have been doing that locally, check the merges to see who was > doing it. It really is just your Makefile/version commits, and then the commits you merged in to make the release. > > Anyway, if it's unsupported to pull from linux-stable.git master I'll > > change my scripts. > > It's not unsupported, you will just get a copy of Linus's tree there, > delayed by usually a -rc release or so. I'm going to guess that what happened then was I was lucky enough for Linus to have released a new -rc by the time I pulled a new stable. So, then checking out the stable tag would have pointed to the right commit to also checkout the associated commits. Anyway, enough noise over this now. -- - Athanasius = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/