Update kernel source to latest?

John de la Garza john at jjdev.com
Sat Mar 29 23:15:42 EDT 2014


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:55:00AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:51 AM, habisravi <habisbc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I cloned the linux kernel source from "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git". When i type "git tag" in the source folder i see version up to "v3.9-rc8", but kernel.org shows latest version is 3.14-rc8. How can i update my source repository to the latest.
> 
> Tags are sorted lexicographically, so v3.14-rc8 is < v3.9-rc8. Scroll
> up or pipe to less.

how about version sort

git tag  | sort -V



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