Re: Repo of git linux-stable

From: Albino Biasutti Neto
Date: Sat May 02 2015 - 13:01:10 EST


2015-05-02 10:25 GMT-03:00 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
> The linux stable tree contains many branches. You need to checkout the
> one that you care about; that is, do you want the 4.0.y stable tree?
> Or the 3.10.y stable tree? Or the 3.14.y stable tree? etc.

Now last version 4.0.1 tree.

> It sounds like you did a git clone of the stable tree, and by default
> that landed you on the master branch. The master branch at the moment
> happens to be pointing at 4.1rc1. I'm not sure why that's the case;
> it probably has more to do with Greg K-H's internal workflows, but the
> fact is the master branch is not what you want.

> You need to explicitly checkout the stable branch that has what you
> want. You can either checkout an explicit version, i.e., "git
> checkout v4.0.1", or you can checkout the latest 4.0 stable release,
> via "git checkout linux-4.0.y".

I am followed the tree in other directory. The problems was branch sure.

> Or you can set up a local branch, via something like "git branch
> my-4.0 linux-4.0.y; git checkout my-4.0". And then in the future a
> "git pull" command will update your branch to have the latest 4.0.y
> stable release. All of this is basic git commands; I suggest you find
> a git tutorial and go through it.

Yeah!

Thanks,

Albino
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