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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:32:25 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16.58
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:47:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:12:05PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Hi Adrian,
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:34:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > do you insist on hearing the truth ("Sorry, I forgot to push."), or can
> > > I tell you "I just wanted to see whether anyone notices." instead? ;-)
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > I think we should intentionally do this test once in a while. Two days
> > ago I was informed that 2.6.20.21 (the latest 2.6.20 I pushed 3 months
> > ago) was not clonable nor pullable due to a problem with the HEAD
> > pointing to latest tag instead of latest commit. Since the error was
> > also present in my local tree, I'm certain that it remained there
> > unnoticed for 3 months !
>
> According to git [1] Ralf merged 2.6.20.21 on 2007-10-18 into the 2.6.20
> branch of his mips tree, so it must have been somehow possible...
Maybe he did this locally (Linus showed me that local FS cloning disables
a lot of tests). Or maybe it could work for some pulls :-/ Definitely a
weird issue anyway!
Cheers,
Willy
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