Re: Linux 5.8-rc6

[Sedat Dilek]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 5:30 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Sedat,
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:19 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You happen to know if I can configure in my ~/.gitconfig to pull
> > linux-git stuff from two repositories - check first git.kernel.org
> > then GitHub.
> >
> > Some days ago GitHub had some maintenance issues and I was not able to pull.
> > Means I trust more the security and integrity concept of git.kernel.org.
> >
> > To pull from GitHub - saved 15-16mins of my life-time - meant
> > 15-16mins go earlier to sleep - as said I started my build 01:02a.m.
> > (German local-time).
>
> Assumed your cloned from kernel.org:
>
>     git remote add github https://github.com/torvalds/linux
>
> After that:
>   1. "git remote update" will fetch data from both origin and github,
>   2. "git merge $(git tag | grep -v rc | sort -n | tail -1)" will
>      merge in the latest release, if you don't have it merged already.
>

Thanks Geert - you saved 15min of my sleeping-/bed-time :-).

- Sedat -