From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 02:06:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Kernel nightly snapshots..
Message-ID: <42797F9F.9030002@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505041639130.2328@ppc970.osdl.org>

It used to be Jeff Garzik, but David Woodhouse volunteered to take this 
over a few days ago, so yesterday I chowned those directories to him.

	-hpa

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I forget who it is that used to do the nightly snapshots for the BK
> kernels, but I _think_ it was David Woodhouse (every time I've blamed it
> on somebody, I've blamed the wrong person, so I'm probably off on this one
> too, but maybe I finally got it right).
> 
> I was wondering how to get that re-started.. It should be technically
> pretty easy, except I realized that my tree doesn't even have plain 2.6.11
> in it. But I just fixed that in the tree, since I need such a baseline 
> myself for my next release..
> 
> Anyway, I just pushed out a kernel tree that contains a tag of a _tree_ 
> that points to the tree at the point of 2.6.11. I also had to teach 
> fsck-cache about the fact that you can give it any kind of object to start 
> your references at, and to make fsck-cache happy, you need to
> 
> 	git-fsck-cache --unreachable HEAD v2.6.11
> 
> to tell it that the kernel tree now has an unconnected tree (described by
> the tag "v2.6.11-tree", and I made the appropriate entry for it in
> .git/refs/tags).
> 
> I also updated git-prune-script to not remove these kinds of things.
> 
> With this, it should be trivial to create snapshots with
> 
> 	git-diff-tree -p v2.6.11 HEAD
> 
> or similar.
> 
> 		Linus