On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 06:39:58PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> When you have a moment, would you please migrate this
> across to your main linux-stable repository?
> 
> I did some experimenting, and found that even when both
> a branch and signed tag are present and pointing at the
> same commit, "git request-pull" will favour output of
> the tag over the branch name.
> 
> But merging the tag will want to create a merge commit.
> While merging the branch (at least with git v1.7.9.x)
> will be treated as fast forward, avoiding a merge, and
> allowing the tag to be fetched separately.
> 
> So, if you don't want a merge commit in your repo, you can
> fetch into a local branch from my branch at:
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-stable.git 
> linux-2.6.34.y
> 
> and then fetch the signed tag listed below after that.
> 
> Hope that helps,

It did, thanks.  All pulled and pushed out now, and the tarballs are
there as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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