From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Singer Subject: Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:20:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20050711222046.GA21376@buici.com> References: <20050708230750.GA23847@buici.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 12 00:42:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds6xK-0008MA-NM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:40:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262943AbVGKW1z (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:27:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262757AbVGKWXf (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:23:35 -0400 Received: from florence.buici.com ([206.124.142.26]:12439 "HELO florence.buici.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262943AbVGKWUs (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:20:48 -0400 Received: (qmail 21539 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jul 2005 22:20:46 -0000 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:43:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote: > > > > In working through a usage example on my way to producing bonafide > > patches, I've found that commit is complaining. Here's what I've done. > > > > o Fetched and built cogito-0.12 > > o Fetched (rsync) Linus' tree > > o Created a working directory, linux-2.6 > > o linked .git in the working directory to the .git directory fetched > > from the net. > > o # git checkout -f v2.6.11 > > This won't work. > > v2.6.11 isn't a commit, it's a tree, and things will go downhill from > there. > > Can you base it on 2.6.12-rc2 or later? That's the earliest with some real > git history. I picked 2.6.12 # git checkout -f v2.6.12 applied the patch and was greeted with an error about being unable to commit telling me that I LONG_HEX_NUMBER is not a valid commit object. Isn't 2.6.12 later than 2.6.12-rcX?