Re: git checkout extraversion

[Nils Radtke <lkml@Think-Future.com>]

  Hi,

  Thanks for the quick reply.

  That's an easy solution. Pitty, it was so hard to find.

  Cheers

On mer2011-10-12@09-15-34+0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
# Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:15:34 +0200 (CEST)
# From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
# To: Nils Radtke <lkml@Think-Future.com>
# cc: Linux Kernel-List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
# Subject: Re: git checkout extraversion
# User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14)
# 
# On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Nils Radtke wrote:
# >   Hi,
# > 
# >   Is it possible -- and if so: how? -- to checkout specific kernel extraversion?
# > 
# >   Example:
# > 
# >   git checkout -b my2.6.39.3 2.6.39.3
# > 
# >   This does not work as there's no such tag "2.6.39.3" (only "2.6.39").
# 
# You need to have the stable tree
# 
#     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
# 
# Linus tree does not contain the stable tags.
# 
# Thanks,
# 
# 	tglx