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From: "Gerb Stralko" <gerb.stralko@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>,
	"Rene Herman" <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT and the current -stable
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:45:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b57c110704141145r2b371d5dpbcf915973b83789a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704141028460.5473@woody.linux-foundation.org>

> Please don't do this. Using the same name for a branch as for a tag is
> madness. Call it "v2.6.20-stable" or anything else, but don't re-use the
> same naming as for tags.
>

Yes I have done this before, and it took me awhile to realize what was
going on.  It caused me some grief, and a few hours of lost time...Of
course this was back in my earlier days ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-14 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-14  5:36 Rene Herman
2007-04-14  6:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-14  7:13   ` Rene Herman
2007-04-14  7:21   ` Greg KH
2007-04-14 17:34   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-14 18:45     ` Gerb Stralko [this message]
2007-04-14  8:34 ` Chris Wright
2007-04-14  8:54   ` Rene Herman
2007-04-14 23:13     ` Rene Herman
2007-04-15  0:23       ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-14 15:15   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-14 17:19     ` Chris Wright
2007-04-14 17:23       ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-14 17:31         ` Chris Wright
2007-04-14 19:07       ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-14 11:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König

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