Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:22:02 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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>
Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question
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* James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> 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?

Let me re-quote what you quoted above:

> > > > I've attached the full commit below. [...]

	Ingo
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