Re: kernel development & git

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:45:18AM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:41:37AM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
> > Do you recommend me to develop new kernel features against 2.6.20-rc5
> > or against 2.6.19.2
> 
> 2.6.20-rc5, or even against the latest git version.
> 
> > (if working against the stable version is prefered, how do i pull it ? I 
> > already
> > pulled rc5 using git clone git://.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git) ?
> 
> 2.6.19.2 is not in git (AFAIK), so you can't directly pull it. However,
> you can go back to 2.6.19 and apply the 2.6.19.2 patch on top of it:

Not true, the -stable series is in git in the stable/ directory in
git.kernel.org.  They are just not in Linus's git tree.

thanks,

greg k-h

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