From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Kernel nightly snapshots.. Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 19:06:23 -0700 Message-ID: <42797F9F.9030002@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List , David Woodhouse X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 05 04:01:20 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTVfe-0005RJ-2L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 04:00:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261790AbVEECHK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 22:07:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261799AbVEECHK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 22:07:10 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:4276 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261790AbVEECHD (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2005 22:07:03 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4526SRc009467 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 May 2005 19:06:28 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.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