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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:16:30 +0200
From: Nils Radtke <lkml@Think-Future.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: git checkout extraversion
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  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
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# 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