Kernel source tagging

[Xavier Naveira]

I see, thank you Paul!

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> 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
>