From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:44:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8wptcrhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901021325.58049.henrik@austad.us> (Henrik Austad's message of "Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:25:57 +0100")
Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> writes:
> I recently tried to do a checkout of (what I thought was the first) inux
> kernel in the linux git repo.
>
> git checkout -b 2.6.11 v2.6.11
This should have barfed, and indeed I think it is a regression around
v1.5.5. v1.5.4 and older git definitely fails to check out a tree object
like that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-02 12:25 git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits Henrik Austad
2009-01-02 15:04 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-02 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-01-03 11:00 ` Henrik Austad
2009-01-03 11:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-03 11:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-03 12:37 ` Henrik Austad
2009-01-03 19:31 ` Daniel Barkalow
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