linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:32 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 05:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Greg KH <gregkh@...e.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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