Re: [Q] Getting the latest available Linux-kernel version (v3.x.y-stable or v3.x.y-rcX)?

From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2013, 09:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+icZUUMjKx2J+Q4xKc6QkiSQB71szVjZNURhkpLFMGjqgpqRw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nj3BG0VCxkzack_9sHa8oo=aypuv6KRusdRKyO1JCkAw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> for my Linux-kernel build-script I am searching for a reliable check
>> of getting the ***latest*** version.
>
>   $ git describe HEAD
>
> If you want a sorted list of tags,
>
>   $ git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format="%(refname:short)" refs/tags
>
> Are you looking for something else?

Hi Ramukar,

Thanks for the quick answer!

Cool, this seems to keep version-chronology!

$ git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format="%(refname:short)" refs/tags | grep ^'v3.[0-9]*' | tail -1 v3.10

$ git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format="%(refname:short)" refs/tags | grep ^'next-[0-9]*' | tail -1 next-20130702

Another question if I may ask:

Sometimes I need to bisect a previous Linux-Next version.

What I am doing is to have the latest Linux-v3.x.y(-rcX) as stable base.

$ git checkout upstream $ git checkout -b Linux-v3.10-rc7 v3.10-rc7

Afterwards I checkout the latest Linux-Next remote repository with all its (new) tags (here: next-20130628)

$ git checkout -b Linux-Next-v20130628 $ git pull linux-next --tags next-20130628

How do I get the latest available linux-version in the downgraded (current) Linux-Next local repository (example: I have parallelly Linux-Next-v20130702 and Linux-Next-v20130628)? If I have all -next tags merged-in, I will get always today's 'next-20130702'. Due to my poor git skillz I do this manually for git-bisect sessions.

Thanks again, you helped me a lot with the above!

- Sedat -