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The current development kernel is...linux-next?

The current development kernel is...linux-next?

Posted Jul 10, 2008 8:29 UTC (Thu) by dale77 (guest, #1490)
Parent article: The current development kernel is...linux-next?

Is it just me or is b7279469d66b55119784b8b9529c99c1955fe747 utterly obscure?

I guess I don't get git yet. Yikes.


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The current development kernel is...linux-next?

Posted Jul 10, 2008 12:17 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's just a unique identifier. All the git commands accept these (as well 
as tags, branch names and a huge bunch of other ways of identifying 
commits, trees, and so on, see 'Specifying Revisions' in the 
git-rev-parse(1) manpage).

Try 'git show b7279469d66b55119784b8b9529c99c1955fe747' to see what it is.

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