Re: Linux 2.6.16.58

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:47:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:12:05PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:34:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > do you insist on hearing the truth ("Sorry, I forgot to push."), or can 
> > > > I tell you "I just wanted to see whether anyone notices." instead?  ;-)
> > > 
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > I think we should intentionally do this test once in a while. Two days
> > > ago I was informed that 2.6.20.21 (the latest 2.6.20 I pushed 3 months
> > > ago) was not clonable nor pullable due to a problem with the HEAD
> > > pointing to latest tag instead of latest commit. Since the error was
> > > also present in my local tree, I'm certain that it remained there
> > > unnoticed for 3 months !
> > 
> > According to git [1] Ralf merged 2.6.20.21 on 2007-10-18 into the 2.6.20 
> > branch of his mips tree, so it must have been somehow possible...
> 
> Maybe he did this locally (Linus showed me that local FS cloning disables
> a lot of tests). Or maybe it could work for some pulls :-/ Definitely a
> weird issue anyway!

Err... I managed to do it for thinkpad-acpi's merge tree too, a lot of time
ago.  So it was somehow possible to get it through the anonymous git server,
probably through the tag.  What I do know is that I usually send head's up
email when I notice something like this, and I find it strange that you
didn't get one from me at that time... but I may have forgotten to send it
at that time.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh