Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Note that you can see if there have been commits since a release (the last git tag) by using the command 'git describe'. $ git checkout -b temp v2.6.23 Switched to a new branch "temp" $ git describe v2.6.23 $ git checkout master $ git describe v2.6.23-4

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
Pavel Roskin wrote: > I'm trying to keep some external drivers up to date with the kernel, and > the first two weeks after the release is the worst time for me. There > is no way to distinguish the current git kernel from the latest release. > It's only after rc1 is released that I can use preproc

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:41 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:22:43 -0400 > Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to keep some external drivers up to date with the kernel, > > and the first two weeks after the release is the worst time for me. > > Consider th

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:45:17PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:34 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > > It would be nice to establish a rule to increment the version number > > > immediately after t

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:34 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > It would be nice to establish a rule to increment the version number > > immediately after the kernel release and have a suffix to indicate that > > it's a pre-rc version.

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:22:43 -0400 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to keep some external drivers up to date with the kernel, > and the first two weeks after the release is the worst time for me. Consider this an incentive to submit your code for inclusion in the upstream kern

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > It would be nice to establish a rule to increment the version number > immediately after the kernel release and have a suffix to indicate that > it's a pre-rc version. "rc0" is my personal favorite. fwiw, rc0 is also what the Fed