From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965440AbXDNSpz (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:45:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965533AbXDNSpz (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:45:55 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:7838 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965440AbXDNSpy (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:45:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DRkfFKke3HtvSih4ntWkemf/SaLGV3206VdL/BAKukm/ApflwehVfWK2G/Ifoj2REAP7T22EMpRJL/AxB28cgeYHgohax42N1Kgivfr1IifN38F4D443Y7aO/a5en7JPtDH+TBt1LxdToB4RZPQx5GBkaz5VdWagvy8wL5ou0cg= Message-ID: <75b57c110704141145r2b371d5dpbcf915973b83789a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:45:53 -0400 From: "Gerb Stralko" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: GIT and the current -stable Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "Rene Herman" , "Linux Kernel" , "Greg KH" , git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46206842.80203@gmail.com> <7vfy73bhik.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 ;)