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

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:34:48AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Ehh, the older versions never expected people to ask a tag to be pulled in
> the first place, so there is no way they would have known to unwrap the
> tag and pasted its tag message in the output ;-).

Heh, fair enough :)

> The request-pull script in 1.7.9 has finally received some belated
> love. Since mid 2009, it didn't get much updates that improve the user
> visible experience.

As most of us used our own scripts for this, that makes sense, nice to
see it cleaned up a lot, I'll use it for my requests after I get 1.7.9
installed on my systems...

greg k-h
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