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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 2896

Linux kernel version numbering

A while ago, I downloaded Linux kernel source 2.6.38.8 from kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.38.8.tar.gz). Today, I cloned github.com/torvalds/linux and tried to find the commit that produced that exact version. The closed thing I could find was a tag for v2.6.38-rc8.

When I did a diff -r on the two directories, there were 775 files that diffed (not including any files under .git/). Can anyone explain (or link an article) how the releases on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 are created vs. the git tags?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 445

Answers (1)

Seth Robertson
Seth Robertson

Reputation: 31451

Linus does not produce/tag sub-releases, only the major releases.

You want the linux-stable tree to find the .8 release. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git

Note that Linus did tag v2.6.38 so you either didn't pull recently enough or didn't sort the tags correctly or something.

Upvotes: 3

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