Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2019 10:04:54 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the userns tree |
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Hi Eric,
On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:29:04 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > The SHA1 tag does exist and I have another tag: > History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git > That lists the tree it actually came from.
Ah, tricky.
> That is the best way I can see to handle bugs that predate v2.6.12 that > Linus first put into git. > > Would it make sense to graft you tree that you check for the existence > of bad sha1s to Thomas's import of the bk tree into git?
I can just get a copy of that tree and check for things in there as well, I guess. Though it shouldn't come up much (I hope :-))
> Is there a better way to refer to old commits that I haven't seen?
Not that I am aware of and I guess it is as good as any.
Thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |