Re: Versioning of tree

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 12:00:42 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
Now, personally, I'd actually like to know the exact top-of-tree
changeset, so I've considered having something that saves that one away,
but then we'd need to do something about non-BK users (make the nightly snapshots squirrell it away somewhere too). That would solve both the module versioning _and_ the bug-report issue.


The nightly snapshots have been exporting this info since Day One, based on your request ;-)

<snapshot>.key contains this info, e.g.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.9-bk1.key
is T.O.T. for
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.9-bk1.bz2

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