git tags (RC kernels ) and kernel versions (www.kernel.org)

[Kevin Wilson]

I want to be able to work with git commands with the Linux kernel
versions according to what I see
in www.kernel.org, and I encounter a difficulty. The following example
demonstrates the
difficulty I encounter.

I see under:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/
13 sub version of the 4.1 kernel:
4.1.1
4.1.2
.....

....
4.1.13


For each one there is a  correspoinding ChangeLog ( ChangeLog-4.1.3,
ChangeLog-4.1.4,
and so on)
I know of course that I can find the commits for each such subversion
by looking in
the corresponding ChangeLog. However, I want to be able to work with
the different subversions
of 4.1 (for example) with git. This means to navigate with git
commands from, let's say, 4.1.13 to  4.1.5, and also go
back and forth with git commends to 4.0 and earlier versions. And also
of course see the commits by
"git show", see the history by "git log", and in general run all git commands.

However, when I run in Linus tree
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git)
the following:

git tag | grep 4.1
I get:
v4.1
v4.1-rc1
v4.1-rc2
v4.1-rc3
v4.1-rc4
v4.1-rc5
v4.1-rc6
v4.1-rc7
v4.1-rc8

So these 8 rc subversions of 4.1 do not seem to correspond the the
1..13 subversions that I see
in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
as mentioned below.


Any ideas?

Regards,
Kevin