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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> What's the syntax for checking out a specific tag on a remote?

This depends on where you stored the tags you obtained from the
remote.  By default, "git fetch --tags" would store the tags in
a flat namespace; there is no "remote tag" namespace.

Hence you would say:

	git checkout v2.6.19

to get a detached HEAD at v2.6.19, or if you want to start a
branch from there,

	git checkout -b my19 v2.6.19