From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: How to checkout a tag? Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:13:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4524E8C2.3060404@garzik.org> References: <4524E2D5.3030907@garzik.org> <4524E72D.9030101@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 05 13:13:23 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 1GVRAE-0003rM-W9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:13:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751671AbWJELNK (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:13:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751680AbWJELNK (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:13:10 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:222 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbWJELNI (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:13:08 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.99]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.62 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GVRA3-0005wN-EX; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:13:07 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) To: Andy Whitcroft In-Reply-To: <4524E72D.9030101@shadowen.org> X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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