Kernel source tagging

[Paul Bolle]

On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 09:08 +0100, Xavier Naveira wrote:
> Why doesn't the Linus tree have tags for the minor version updates of
> the kernel, ie, 3.18.1, 3.18.2 etc? If i do:
> 
> $ git tag | grep 3\.18
> 
> The result is:
> 
> v3.18
> v3.18-rc1
> v3.18-rc2
> v3.18-rc3
> v3.18-rc4
> v3.18-rc5
> v3.18-rc6
> v3.18-rc7

You need to add the stable tree if you want those tags too. I always
forget the invocation of most git commands, such as the command to add
remotes, but this is my config:
    $ grep stable .git/config 
    [remote "linux-stable"]
	url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-stable/*

Hope this helps,


Paul Bolle