Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I want to be able to work with git commands with the Linux kernel > versions according to what I see > in www.kernel.org, and I encounter a difficulty. The following example > demonstrates the > difficulty I encounter. > > I see under: > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ > 13 sub version of the 4.1 kernel: > 4.1.1 > 4.1.2 > ..... > > .... > 4.1.13 > > > For each one there is a correspoinding ChangeLog ( ChangeLog-4.1.3, > ChangeLog-4.1.4, > and so on) > I know of course that I can find the commits for each such subversion > by looking in > the corresponding ChangeLog. However, I want to be able to work with > the different subversions > of 4.1 (for example) with git. This means to navigate with git > commands from, let's say, 4.1.13 to 4.1.5, and also go > back and forth with git commends to 4.0 and earlier versions. And also > of course see the commits by > "git show", see the history by "git log", and in general run all git commands. > > However, when I run in Linus tree > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git) > the following: > > 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 > > So these 8 rc subversions of 4.1 do not seem to correspond the the > 1..13 subversions that I see > in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > as mentioned below. The '-rc' tags are release candidates, i.e. development snapshops of the 'v4.1 to be'. They are not releases and not directly related to 4.1.y revisions at all. Those are in a separate branch based on the final 4.1 release. You can find the 4.1.y stable branch, and other stable branches here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/ Bjørn _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
