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

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:46:24 +0200, Kevin Wilson said:

> 13 sub version of the 4.1 kernel:
> 4.1.1
> 4.1.2
> .....
>
> ....
> 4.1.13

This is a string of 13 patchesets that came out *AFTER* v4.1 was released.

> 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

While these are "release candidates" that came out *before* 4.1 release.

The actual order is like this:

v4.1-rc1 4.1-rc2 4.1-rc3  ... 4.1-rc8  v4.1 - v4.2-rc1 v4.2-rc2 ... (Linus tree)
note this is a branch in different tree-> \ 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4  (stable tree)

Note the .1 .2 .3 are "stable" releases not even tagged in Linus's tree,
as they are backports of fixes that have landed in newer trees.  So for
instance, if a regression is found and fixed in the v4.2-rc2 release, it
may be backported and become part of 4.1.5 or whatever.

Hope that clarifies things for you.
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