From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:44:50 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8wptcrhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200901021325.58049.henrik@austad.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Henrik Austad X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 02 22:46:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIrqe-0003mb-Nh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:46:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758693AbZABVpA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:45:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758650AbZABVpA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:45:00 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:53405 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757503AbZABVo7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:44:59 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75AF8D504; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:44:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3BC7D8D503; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:44:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200901021325.58049.henrik@austad.us> (Henrik Austad's message of "Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:25:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 985746E6-D916-11DD-BA1D-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Henrik Austad writes: > I recently tried to do a checkout of (what I thought was the first) inux > kernel in the linux git repo. > > git checkout -b 2.6.11 v2.6.11 This should have barfed, and indeed I think it is a regression around v1.5.5. v1.5.4 and older git definitely fails to check out a tree object like that.