From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@horizon.com Subject: Re: How to checkout a tag? Date: 5 Oct 2006 08:00:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20061005120037.16181.qmail@science.horizon.com> Cc: linux@horizon.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 05 14:01:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVRul-00067A-Ac for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:01:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751095AbWJEMAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:00:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751111AbWJEMAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:00:39 -0400 Received: from science.horizon.com ([192.35.100.1]:40505 "HELO science.horizon.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751095AbWJEMAi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:00:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 16182 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Oct 2006 08:00:37 -0400 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > 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