linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 3.3-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:14:56 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 3.3-rc1

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:22:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > I tried to create a signed tag for this pull request.  It's call
> > "driver-core-3.3-rc1-bugfixes" in the repo below, but when I did:
> >    git request-pull master git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/ driver-core-3.3-rc1-bugfixes > msg.txt
> >
> > I got the text below, no signed tag with the wording that I added to it
> > that I could see.  Now I am still using git 1.7.8.3, is that why?  If
> > so, I'll go build 1.7.9 as I see that is now out today.
> >
> > Did I mess something up?  I created the tag with:
> >    git tag -u kroah.com -s driver-core-3.3-rc1-bugfixes driver-core-linus
> 
> No, everything looks fine, and I just pulled it.
> 
> But your old version of git won't be able to do that pull (or
> request-pull) since it doesn't have support for the signed tag
> feature. So the signed tag itself works fine, and I can pull from you,
> but yes, you need to have a newer version yourself to see how that
> works.

Ok, thanks for verifying that I didn't mess anything up on my side.

greg k-h
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