Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758895AbXELQkh (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 12:40:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754553AbXELQkb (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 12:40:31 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:54088 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751580AbXELQka (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 12:40:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=m2Liezphed9Gn3MDb7Gp7u8csbt71eRW3o41Wy3N0qRB1GmaTN2qBVzLlexTOw4b+DQiQSQjrNKHwNHuqcG3TFJAXF4Hkvdi/DpfZufartky5WCSWP/Xu0eFq9VpTsco4L4bprwUzL3BHe1x8oX3wEv9WyIuJnDh3Cocr1egBtI= Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:39:56 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Cyrill Gorcunov , Jan Engelhardt , David Woodhouse , "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.6.21-gitN - versioning question Message-ID: <20070512163956.GA9048@cvg> References: <20070512.210308.93070730.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20070512131906.GF8337@cvg> <1178977496.2802.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070512162428.GB8366@cvg> <20070512163141.GC21729@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070512163141.GC21729@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1929 Lines: 49 [Russell King - Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:31:41PM +0100] | On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:24:28PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > [Jan Engelhardt - Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:01:19PM +0200] | > | | > | On May 12 2007 21:44, David Woodhouse wrote: | > | >On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:19 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > | >> Actually I think it would be convenient if such tags (like | > | >> v.2.6.21-git16) were in Linus' git tree too. | > | > | > | >Then there would be _lots_ of tags in the master tree -- I'm not sure we | > | >want that. | > | > | > | >I suppose I could put a tree on kernel.org which _does_ have the tags, | > | >and which precisely matches Linus' tree in every other way... but then | > | >again, you could do that too by just rsyncing the tags yourself :) | > | | > | Are you saying GIT tags are expensive, compared to, say, SVN tags? | | (Sorry, don't have Jan's message.) | | The real issue is not that, but that David doesn't have write access to | Linus' published tree. Neither should he because he could contaminate | Linus' published tree with the MTD tree, or introduce some unreviewed | patch which gave him backdoor access via the kernel. | | (Of course, David's unlikely to do either, but that's not really the | point.) | | -- | Russell King | Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ | maintainer of: | The only reason I wrote some messages to this theme is that on my point of view the using of tags like "v2.6.21-git16" would be convenient. But that should be Linus' decision (thanks to David for proposed solution). Anyway if Linus doesn't want to keep a such tags in hisown tree I prefer to do the same ;) Cyrill - 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/