Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758198AbXEMG0x (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 02:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756978AbXEMG0r (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 02:26:47 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60512 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755109AbXEMG0q (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 02:26:46 -0400 Subject: Re: linux-2.6.21-gitN - versioning question From: David Woodhouse To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20070512.210308.93070730.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20070512131906.GF8337@cvg> <1178977496.2802.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:26:40 +0800 Message-Id: <1179037601.2802.96.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 28 On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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? I wasn't saying that -- I've no idea how expensive SVN tags are. But I was of the opinion that GIT tags aren't free -- I thought I'd seen git-pull explicitly checking (with one round-trip latency) that it has the corresponding commit for every tag it knows about. -- dwmw2 - 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/