Hi, After some discussions that happened over kernel newbie mailing list in past, I've managed to send some trivial patches to linux janitors and to relevant maintainers. My patch base has been linux-next tree and I'm glad that some of them got merged. Recently, for one of my patch, I got a reply from the subsystem maintainer that my patch doesn't apply to his tree anymore and asked me to do a refresh and try again. To make things clear, please find the steps that I've followed to clone linux-next tree: amit@ubuntu:~$ mkdir lkernel amit@ubuntu:~$ cd lkernel amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amit/lkernel/.git/ amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git remote add linux-next git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch linux-next amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch --tags linux-next amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git tag -l next-* next-20120816 next-20120817 next-20120820 next-20120821 ............ ............ next-20121114 next-20121115 < -- --- (Most recent tag) amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git checkout next-20121115 -b Nov-15 amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git branch * Nov-15 So *Nov-15* is my local branch and here I did some changes and did a commit amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git add <some file in staging directory> amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git commt -a amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git status # On branch Nov-15 nothing to commit (working directory clean) I forgot to send this patch for couple of days and maybe that was reason, my patch couldn't apply(as mentioned by the subsystem maintainer). So still being on my *Nov-15" branch, today(November 21, 2012), I invoked, following commands to get the latest tags: amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git branch * Nov-15 amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git remote update amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch linux-next amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch --tags linux-next I was hoping to get new tags, but to my surprise there hasn't been any new releases. This makes me think that something is wrong with my git setup. My git configuration: amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git config --list user.name=<my name> user.email=<my Email ID> credential.helper=cache --timeout=3600 sendemail.smtpserver=<gmail smtp server> sendemail.smtpserverport=<port> sendemail.smtpencryption=<encryption> sendemail.smtpuser=<my email ID> color.ui=true color.status=auto color.branch=auto push.default=matching branch.autosetuprebase=always core.repositoryformatversion=0 core.filemode=true core.bare=false core.logallrefupdates=true remote.linux-next.url=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git remote.linux-next.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-next/* branch.master.remote=linux-next branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master branch.master.rebase=true Please confirm if everything is okay with my git setup and I need not worry if I do not see any new tags for sometime. -Amit