On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Greg KH wrote: > > Here's something rather confusing. The URL: > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b62 > > > > brings up a page containing the commit you mentioned above. But that > > commit was never added to the 2.6.27.y tree! It's part of Linus's main > > tree. The actual commit applied as part of 2.6.27.23 was > > 070bb0f3b6df167554f0ecdeb17a5bcdb1cd7b83. So what's going on here? > > Probably due to the fact that the stable tree is cloned with the "base" > being Linus's main tree. So when you ask for a commit, and it can't > find it in the local tree, it will go to the "base" to try to find it, > and it does. Is this an issue with git, or with gitweb (or whatever program provides the web interface), or just with the way the repositories are set up at git.kernel.org? > It is a bit weird though, perhaps we should report this to the git > developers. Should I report it on the git mailing list? Or would some person or other mailing list be more suitable? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
