Re: torvalds/linux repository on github

From: Jeffrey Merkey
Date: Sun Nov 01 2015 - 19:30:00 EST


On 11/1/15, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Jeffrey Merkey wrote:
>> Linus,
>>
>> Can you check your repository on github at
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux. I tried to fork and clone it and
>> it is missing (or appears to be missing) all the subversion tags --
>> just has rcX candidates and major version tags (i.e. 4.1, 4.2 but
>> missing the 4.2.X tags).
>
> Those tags are not in Linus's tree, they are in the linux-stable tree,
> which is a different one (linux-stable on git.kernel.org, none of us use
> github for actual development.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> greg k-h
>

That does help, thanks Greg. Well I don't plan on using github for
development either, just was looking for a place to post my patches
where folks can get to them. Google code is shutdown and Sourceforce
is ancient technology. Any suggestions other than putting a git
server online myself?

:-)

Jeff
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