* How to checkout a tag?
@ 2006-10-05 10:47 Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 11:06 ` Andy Whitcroft
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2006-10-05 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Git Mailing List
Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is 2.6.19-rc1.
I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
then merge up to the current kernel.
How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
starting point?
Jeff
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* Re: How to checkout a tag?
2006-10-05 10:47 Jeff Garzik
@ 2006-10-05 11:06 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-05 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 7:32 ` Jakub Narebski
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andy Whitcroft @ 2006-10-05 11:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: Git Mailing List
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is 2.6.19-rc1.
>
> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
> then merge up to the current kernel.
>
> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
> starting point?
A tag is a ref like any other:
git checkout -b branchname tag
-apw
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* Re: How to checkout a tag?
2006-10-05 11:06 ` Andy Whitcroft
@ 2006-10-05 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 11:18 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-06 7:32 ` Jakub Narebski
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Garzik @ 2006-10-05 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Whitcroft; +Cc: Git Mailing List
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
>> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is 2.6.19-rc1.
>>
>> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
>> then merge up to the current kernel.
>>
>> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
>> starting point?
>
> A tag is a ref like any other:
>
> git checkout -b branchname tag
Weird. No idea why that didn't work before, for me.
Thanks for the clue-hammer.
Jeff
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* Re: How to checkout a tag?
2006-10-05 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
@ 2006-10-05 11:18 ` Andy Whitcroft
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andy Whitcroft @ 2006-10-05 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: Git Mailing List
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
>>> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is
>>> 2.6.19-rc1.
>>>
>>> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
>>> then merge up to the current kernel.
>>>
>>> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
>>> starting point?
>>
>> A tag is a ref like any other:
>>
>> git checkout -b branchname tag
>
> Weird. No idea why that didn't work before, for me.
>
> Thanks for the clue-hammer.
I think I've been in a place where I git fetched a tag and I ended up
with the objects, but not with an actual local tag for it. Perhaps that
happened to you.
-apw
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* Re: How to checkout a tag?
@ 2006-10-05 12:00 linux
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: linux @ 2006-10-05 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: linux
> A tag is a ref like any other:
>
> git checkout -b branchname tag
For some operations, "git pull" in particular, I need
to include a "tags/" prefix. E.g.
$ git fetch
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 27780 objects.
remote: Result has 22237 objects.
remote: Deltifying 22237 objects.
remote: 100% (22237/22237) done
Unpacking 22237 objects
remote: Total 22237, written 22237 (delta 18295), reused 17624 (delta 14183)
100% (22237/22237) done
* refs/heads/origin: fast forward to branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
from a77c64c1a641950626181b4857abb701d8f38ccc to d223a60106891bfe46febfacf46b20cd8509aaad
Auto-following refs/tags/v2.6.19-rc1
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 1 objects.
remote: Deltifying 1 objects.
remote: 100% (1/1) done
remote: Total 1, written 1 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0)
Unpacking 1 objects
100% (1/1) done
* refs/tags/v2.6.19-rc1: storing tag 'v2.6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
$ git pull . v2.6.19-rc1
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/v2.6.19-rc1
Fetch failure: .
$ git pull -n . tags/v2.6.19-rc1
Updating from e478bec0ba0a83a48a0f6982934b6de079e7e6b3 to d223a60106891bfe46febfacf46b20cd8509aaad
Checking files out...
Checking files out...
100% (6590/6590) done
Fast forward
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* Re: How to checkout a tag?
2006-10-05 11:06 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-05 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
@ 2006-10-06 7:32 ` Jakub Narebski
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Narebski @ 2006-10-06 7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
>> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is 2.6.19-rc1.
>>
>> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
>> then merge up to the current kernel.
>>
>> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
>> starting point?
>
> A tag is a ref like any other:
>
> git checkout -b branchname tag
Which is a shortcut for
git branch branchname tag
git checkout branchname
You cannot checkout a tag [object], because branch has to be able to move
forward to the new commit when you commit changes,
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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