Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2013 11:28:37 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.9.1 |
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On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:19:43PM +0100, Athanasius wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:50:20AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:22:45AM +0100, Athanasius wrote: > > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:10:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > I'm announcing the release of the 3.9.1 kernel. > > > > > > > > All users of the 3.9 kernel series must upgrade. > > > > > > > > The updated 3.9.y git tree can be found at: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.9.y > > > > > > Usually I can: > > > > > > git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git master > > > > If you do that, you only get the master branch updated locally. Which > > tracks Linus's tree, not the different stable releases. > > > > > which means not having to update scripts/commandline history on each > > > major verison change, but this time I did indeed need to: > > > > > > git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.9.y > > > > > > is this an intended change, or did you do something like forgetting to > > > merge into master on linux-stable ? > > > > No, I have not changed anything on my end, perhaps you never really were > > updating the different stable branches? > > 'uname -r' says I was. Also 'git log' for my v3.8 branch currently on > 3.8.9 via the 'master' method does include at least the top few commits > listed on: > > <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/?id=refs/tags/v3.8.9> > > Of course only having gotten to 3.8.9 a pull against linux-3.8.y does > see changes. Perhaps someone else, or a script on git.kernel.org was > merging into master before and now isn't ?
No, nothing was ever mergeing into master in the linux-stable git tree. You might have been doing that locally, check the merges to see who was doing it.
> Anyway, if it's unsupported to pull from linux-stable.git master I'll > change my scripts.
It's not unsupported, you will just get a copy of Linus's tree there, delayed by usually a -rc release or so.
thanks,
greg k-h
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