Re: Heads-up from Linus -- potential bisection trainwreck: "A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag"

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:54:05AM +0100, Bengt Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not so usual to be switching rc kernels for guix I suppose, but
> this looked worth mentioning anyway:
> 
> LWN archive link [1]
> 
> [1]https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=wjnzdLSP3oDxhf9eMTYo7GF-QjaNLBUH1Zk3c4A7X75YA@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> In case of link problem, a couple of extractions:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> From:                 Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>
> To:           Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>
> Subject:              A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag
> Date:                 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:53:18 -0800
> Message-ID:           
> <CAHk-=wjnzdLSP3oDxhf9eMTYo7GF-QjaNLBUH1Zk3c4A7X75YA@mail.gmail.com>
> 
> Hey peeps - some of you may have already noticed that in my public git
> tree, the "v5.12-rc1" tag has magically been renamed to
> "v5.12-rc1-dontuse". It's still the same object, it still says
> "v5.12-rc1" internally, and it is still is signed by me, but the
> user-visible name of the tag has changed.

Thanks for sending this note! I had noticed it, but it's good to share
important messages like this one on guix-devel.