From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lamikr Subject: Re: What's in git.git and announcing GIT v1.5.0-rc1 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:54:21 +0200 Message-ID: <45ABE9FD.4050601@cc.jyu.fi> References: <200701150221.l0F2LlwJ016982@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> Reply-To: lamikr@cc.jyu.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 15 21:53:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6YlX-0006ex-Qe for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:49:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751510AbXAOUtN (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:49:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751482AbXAOUtN (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:49:13 -0500 Received: from posti6.jyu.fi ([130.234.4.43]:44794 "EHLO posti6.jyu.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751510AbXAOUtM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:49:12 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by posti6.jyu.fi (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0FKmsnm001455; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:48:54 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cc.jyu.fi Received: from posti6.jyu.fi ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (posti6.jyu.fi [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qa4QznLpwKx3; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:48:54 +0200 (EET) Received: from aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi (aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi [130.234.182.120]) by posti6.jyu.fi (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0FKmpBE001450; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:48:52 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (aragorn2.kortex.jyu.fi [127.0.0.1]) by aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55071468194; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:54:22 +0200 (EET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070111) To: "Horst H. von Brand" In-Reply-To: <200701150221.l0F2LlwJ016982@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> Would it make sense to add something like this to the announcements as >> it is not very easy to find references to the git-repository itself from >> the net. >> >> You can get the git repository-itself by using a following commands >> >> git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git_repo >> >> After that you can switch to tagged version or sources >> from the repository by using command >> >> git-checkout -f v1.5.0-rc1 master >> >> Alternatively you can download the tar packed version of sources from >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ >> > > Be careful, this gives you a old-fashioned repository, the repositories > created by 1.5.0-rc are different, and 1.4.4.4 doesn't grok them: > > * refusing to create funny ref 'remotes/origin/*' locally > So that would also not work if one uses git-1.4.4 client for fetching from the git-1.5.x repository? How one is then supposed to jump from head/master to tagged version? Mika