From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:02:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Selecting the minor revs
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In-Reply-To: <0e6701c651f9$2605aad0$a100a8c0@casabyte.com>

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:49:53 -0500
"Greg Lee" <glee@swspec.com> wrote:

> How do I select one of the "minor" bug fix revs using git?  For example I want to do a git
> bisect between 2.6.15.6 and 2.6.16 but I cannot determine what the naming convention is
> for "2.6.15.6".  I've tried "v2.6.15.6" and "v2.6.15-6".
>  
> Please cc any responses.


If you're interested in the stable-series releases of the kernel, unfortunately they're
not in the git repository.   On the otherhand if you're actually talking about the 
release candidates that Linus puts out before each new major version, the format is  
v2.6.16-rc2, v2.6.15-rc3  etc..

Sean