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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:20:32 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>, 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 * 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.) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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