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Kernel nightly snapshots..

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 5, 2005, 00:28 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505041639130.2328@ppc970.osdl.org>

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
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  3. David WoodhouseMay 5, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 5, 2005
  5. David WoodhouseMay 5, 2005
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  7. Linus TorvaldsMay 5, 2005
  8. David WoodhouseMay 7, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinMay 6, 2005
  10. David WoodhouseMay 6, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinMay 6, 2005
  12. Marcelo TosattiMay 6, 2005
  13. Thomas GlanzmannMay 22, 2005
  14. David WoodhouseMay 22, 2005
  15. Thomas GlanzmannMay 22, 2005
  16. Russell KingMay 22, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsMay 5, 2005
  18. David WoodhouseMay 6, 2005

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