From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to checkout a tag?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:18:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4524EA18.3080704@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4524E8C2.3060404@garzik.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 10:47 How to checkout a tag? Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 11:06 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-10-05 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 11:18 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2006-10-06 7:32 ` Jakub Narebski
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2006-10-05 12:00 linux
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