Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20091110042032.GD29454@elte.hu>
References: <20091110034831.GB26809@elte.hu>
	 <20091110041452.GA25575@suse.de>  <20091110042032.GD29454@elte.hu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:32 -0500
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On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 05:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > > I've attached the full commit below. The prereq commits are not 
> > > uptream yet, and they dont carry a -stable backporting tag as the 
> > > -stable relevance was not anticipated at that point yet. They will 
> > > all be upstream in the next merge window when Linus merges the 
> > > relevant tree - and then all these tags become visible to the 
> > > -stable team's scripts.
> > > 
> > > What do you think about this new -stable tagging variant? To me it 
> > > looks quite intuitive, less error-prone and it is more informative 
> > > as well. Furthermore, it gives us some freedom to mark commits as 
> > > backport candidates later on. I kept them oneliners for the purpose 
> > > of making them all self-sufficient tags.
> > 
> > I agree.
> 
> Ok - thanks for the confirmation - i've pushed out the first such 
> commit. (Let me know if there's any problem with it down the line - it 
> will be a few weeks, in the next merge window, until it truly 
> 'activates' for -stable.)

Can you give me the commit id in your tree so I can run a few tests?

Thanks,

James


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