Lots of stable kernel updates [LWN.net]

Lots of stable kernel updates

Posted Oct 8, 2012 6:04 UTC (Mon) by istenrot (subscriber, #69564)
In reply to: Lots of stable kernel updates by theophrastus
Parent article: Lots of stable kernel updates

You need to track Greg's stable tree in addition to Linus' master tree in order to get stable releases.

You probably have already cloned Linus' tree:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Next add Greg's stable tree:
git remote add stable git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
git remote update

Start tracking Greg's stable 3.6 releases:
git checkout -b stable-3.6 stable/linux-3.6.y

Use git describe, to verify you have 3.6.1 sources.

Do git remote update && git pull, whenever you want to refresh your cloned repos.

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Lots of stable kernel updates

Posted Oct 8, 2012 16:01 UTC (Mon) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]

Thank you very much! This remains one of the only forums where one can apparently learn these important things.

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Posted Oct 8, 2012 22:03 UTC (Mon) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206) [Link]

LWN and cobet are invaluable to the community, Thanks guys

MFG, omb