From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755294Ab1J0MDO (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:03:14 -0400 Received: from smtp-out3.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.178]:53742 "EHLO smtp-out3.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755263Ab1J0MDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:03:13 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.8 From: Paul Bolle To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net In-Reply-To: <20111025051928.GA7997@kroah.com> References: <20111025051928.GA7997@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:02:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1319716969.20488.14.camel@x61.thuisdomein> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 (2.32.3-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 07:19 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > The updated 3.0.y git tree can be found at (NOTE THE ADDRESS CHANGE): > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.0.y > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary Somehow I seem to be able to generate perfect copies of patch-3.0.4.bz2 (and earlier), by simply doing a command like: git diff v3.0 v3.04 | bzip2 -9 > patch-3.0.4-git.bz2 But for patch-3.0.5 (and above) trivial commands like git diff v3.0 v3.0.8 > patch-3.0.8-git do not generate perfect copies anymore. Have you perhaps changed the way you generate the patches since v3.0.5? Not that this matters much, since tags v3.0.5 (and up) are signed by your "Linux kernel stable release signing key", but I still wonder what could cause this difference. Maybe it's just a git upgrade on your side. Paul Bolle