From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932680AbVITRAv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932711AbVITRAv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:00:51 -0400 Received: from mail.portrix.net ([212.202.157.208]:13709 "EHLO zoidberg.portrix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932680AbVITRAu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:00:50 -0400 Message-ID: <43304012.2040806@sfhq.hn.org> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:00:02 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050802 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean CC: Jan Dittmer , Alexander Nyberg , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2 References: <200509201005.49294.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20050920141008.GA493@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200509201025.36998.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <56402.10.10.10.28.1127229646.squirrel@linux1> <20050920153231.GA2958@localhost.localdomain> <43303650.5030202@sfhq.hn.org> <43303C85.1020301@ppp0.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sean wrote: > On Tue, September 20, 2005 12:44 pm, Jan Dittmer said: > > >>I know, but for multiple people testing daily releases it's much easier to >>say -git1 worked -git2 didn't. Sure, for searching the patch `git bisect` >>is priceless but for regular testing the -gitx thing comes very handy. >>Otherwise you can get a arbitrary intermediate state of linus tree if >>you're pulling at the wrong moment. It's actually also faster I suppose >>to get one patch than running `git pull` - at least with a cold cache >>(it used to be in the 0.1 days of git). >>Just my .02, > > > That's a good point. Guess it would be useful if the HEAD commit was > documented along with each -gitX release. It is in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.x-gity.id Jan