Re: [GIT PULL 0/7] EFI fixes for v5.7

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 11:07, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 02:57:47PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > The following changes since commit a088b858f16af85e3db359b6c6aaa92dd3bc0921:
> >
> >   efi/x86: Revert struct layout change to fix kexec boot regression (2020-04-14 08:32:17 +0200)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
>
> can you please make your tags unique? For example call this one:
>
> efi-urgent-for-v5.7-rc6
>
> or so so that the git history can show for which -rc that urgent tag was
> meant?
>
> I mean, technically one can do that already with git but it would be
> easier if it had the rc in the name. We do that already in tip - either
> -rc name or the date of the tag.
>
> Also, using the same tag gives:
>
> From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi
>  ! [rejected]                  efi-next           -> efi-next  (would clobber existing tag)
>  ! [rejected]                  efi-urgent         -> efi-urgent  (would clobber existing tag)
>
> when I try to fetch from you and I can delete the old tag but having
> unique tag names makes the history more user-friendly, I'd say.
>

Sure