From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Singer Subject: How to get a directory filled with v2.6.11? Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:03:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20050712050347.GA10751@buici.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 12 07:04:19 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsCwB-0001Hs-7A for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:04:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262375AbVGLFDx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262372AbVGLFDx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:03:53 -0400 Received: from florence.buici.com ([206.124.142.26]:18075 "HELO florence.buici.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262375AbVGLFDu (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:03:50 -0400 Received: (qmail 10928 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Jul 2005 05:03:47 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org I switched to using the git version in source control. Checkout/branching works great. :-) But, this version of git doesn't let me do # git checkout -f v2.6.11 error: Object 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c is a tree, not a commit Needed a single revision which I suspect is protection added to prevent my special sort of shenanigans. If I cannot perform the checkout anymore, is there another way to fill a directory with the contents of that particular tree? What am I doing? I've got some updates against 2.6.11 orphaned in another develpment directory. I could just upack a tar.bz2 file for 2.6.11, but git is more clever. I want to perform a diff against the tagged v2.6.11 and my development tree.