From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:19:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:59106 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759212Ab2FARTz (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2012 13:19:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Is there perhaps a tag I should pull instead? Never mind, I see it. It's 'ext4_for_linus'. So here's the odd 'git' trick of the day. Do git ls-remote git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 | less -S to see all the branches and tags. In there, we see the branch you asked me to pull: 5e44f8c374.. refs/heads/dev and then we can see if perhaps any of the tags have that same commit when peeled. So search for 5e44f8c374, and sure enough: .. 4e4d525149.. refs/tags/ext4_for_linus 5e44f8c374.. refs/tags/ext4_for_linus^{} .. so that 'ext4_for_linus' tag (which obviously has a different SHA1 than the commit it points to) points to the same commit (the "^{}" is just the git SHA1 expression for "commit pointed to by object"). So pulling 'ext4_for_linus' instead of 'dev' will get me the same commits you asked me to pull, with the added tag information that your pull request containes. Now I just wonder why your pull request said 'dev' at all. Linus