From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel nightly snapshots..
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 19:06:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42797F9F.9030002@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505041639130.2328@ppc970.osdl.org>
It used to be Jeff Garzik, but David Woodhouse volunteered to take this
over a few days ago, so yesterday I chowned those directories to him.
-hpa
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I forget who it is that used to do the nightly snapshots for the BK
> kernels, but I _think_ it was David Woodhouse (every time I've blamed it
> on somebody, I've blamed the wrong person, so I'm probably off on this one
> too, but maybe I finally got it right).
>
> I was wondering how to get that re-started.. It should be technically
> pretty easy, except I realized that my tree doesn't even have plain 2.6.11
> in it. But I just fixed that in the tree, since I need such a baseline
> myself for my next release..
>
> Anyway, I just pushed out a kernel tree that contains a tag of a _tree_
> that points to the tree at the point of 2.6.11. I also had to teach
> fsck-cache about the fact that you can give it any kind of object to start
> your references at, and to make fsck-cache happy, you need to
>
> git-fsck-cache --unreachable HEAD v2.6.11
>
> to tell it that the kernel tree now has an unconnected tree (described by
> the tag "v2.6.11-tree", and I made the appropriate entry for it in
> .git/refs/tags).
>
> I also updated git-prune-script to not remove these kinds of things.
>
> With this, it should be trivial to create snapshots with
>
> git-diff-tree -p v2.6.11 HEAD
>
> or similar.
>
> Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-05 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-05 0:28 Kernel nightly snapshots Linus Torvalds
2005-05-05 2:06 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-05-05 14:38 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-05 14:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-05 15:10 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-05 15:30 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-05 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-07 12:39 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-06 7:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-06 21:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-05-22 11:50 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-22 11:59 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-22 12:09 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-22 17:01 ` Russell King
2005-05-05 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-06 7:42 ` David Woodhouse
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