From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932669AbVITQuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:50:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932670AbVITQuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:50:50 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.163]:31694 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP03.bayc1.hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932669AbVITQut (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:50:49 -0400 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [67.71.125.52] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Message-ID: <48312.10.10.10.28.1127235046.squirrel@linux1> In-Reply-To: <43303C85.1020301@ppp0.net> 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> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:50:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2 From: "Sean" To: "Jan Dittmer" Cc: "Alexander Nyberg" , "Gene Heskett" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Sep 2005 16:50:21.0106 (UTC) FILETIME=[635BB120:01C5BE03] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Sean