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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: v2.6.11 tag in kernel tree
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:04:30 -0800 (PST)
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To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> Using this tree
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
> 
> These two tags appear to be pointing to a tree instead of a commit.
> v2.6.11
> v2.6.11-tree

Yes. We don't have that as a commit. The commit history starts with 
v2.6.12-rc2.

> I'm trying to check out v2.6.11 so that I can figure out the changes a
> vendor made to it.

You can't check it out, since it's not a commit, but since it is a tree, 
you can:

 - use it as a base for "git diff"

	git diff v2.6.11 <any-commit-goes-here>

 - or if you want to use it as a base for development, create a new commit 
   and branch from it:

	git-commit-tree v2.6.11 <<EOF
	This is an initial commit starting at the state of Linux-v2.6.11
	EOF

   and then you can take the resulting SHA1 (that it wrote out to stdout), 
   and do

	git checkout -b my-new-branch <sha1thatyoujustgot>

However, whatever you do, it won't be connected to the rest of the git 
history.

Another possibility may be to get the historical Linux tree (which _does_ 
have a real v2.6.11, and that you _can_ graft together with the current 
tree, and thus get full history), and then use that grafted whole-history 
tree for whatever you want to do. That allows you to do things like 
rebasing the end result (if you started a new branch based on 2.6.11) etc, 
since it's now all connected.