[Q] Import SVN tags into a local Git repository?

2016-02-26 Thread Sedat Dilek
[ Please CC me as I am not subscribed to this ML ] Hi, I have here the problem that I build LLVM/Clang out of the official LLVM Git repositories. But version-tagging is done in the LLVM SVN repositories (see announce in [0] "[3.8 Release] RC3 has been tagged"). The according Git repositories ha

Re: [Q] Getting the latest available Linux-kernel version (v3.x.y-stable or v3.x.y-rcX)?

2013-07-02 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Sedat Dilek wrote: >> Sometimes I need to bisect a previous Linux-Next version. >> >> What I am doing is to have the latest Linux-v3.x.y(-rcX) as stable base. >> >> $ git checkout upstream >> $ gi

Re: [Q] Getting the latest available Linux-kernel version (v3.x.y-stable or v3.x.y-rcX)?

2013-07-02 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Sedat Dilek wrote: >> for my Linux-kernel build-script I am searching for a reliable check >> of getting the ***latest*** version. > > $ git describe HEAD > > If you want a sorted list of tags, >

[Q] Getting the latest available Linux-kernel version (v3.x.y-stable or v3.x.y-rcX)?

2013-07-02 Thread Sedat Dilek
Hi, for my Linux-kernel build-script I am searching for a reliable check of getting the ***latest*** version. This could be 'v3.x.y-stable' or 'v3.x.y-rcX'. 'git tag' seems to be fast, but not reliable. 'git log --oneline' is slow, but does the job. For getting v3.x.y-stable this seems to work..