Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sat Jun 18 2016 - 12:53:54 EST


On 06/18/2016 09:35 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 08:12:34AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On 06/17/2016 10:29 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
Hi Greg,

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:16:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
Hi,

I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into
a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them.

I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git
tree here:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git

I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real"
-rc release. Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on
them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end.

Do you mean you'll tag them when you issue a review ? If so, maybe that
can help our testers automatically trigger a series of tests when they
spot a tag that was not tested yet instead of having to monitor emails ?
If that's the case, I have no issue with pushing a tag when I emit a
series as well.


I think he means that the topmost patch is similar to the following
(taken from 4.6.y).

Guenter

---
commit f1976bc9e10f2abcea081a9d8bcf05e8633ea6ab
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 17 19:50:50 2016 -0700

Linux 4.6.3-rc1

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 93068c2..47737f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
VERSION = 4
PATCHLEVEL = 6
-SUBLEVEL = 2
-EXTRAVERSION =
+SUBLEVEL = 3
+EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
NAME = Charred Weasel

Yeah, right now my scripts add that. Is it worth me not having that
there until I do an -rc release? Or is it ok as-is?


Ok with me. The builders don't care. I use "git describe" to identify versions.

Guenter