Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.7

From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Date: Apr 24, 2005, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID: <1114338906.27940.35.camel@nosferatu.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20050423220236.26f834ee.pj@sgi.com>

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 22:02 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:

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> The winning solution via private email:
> 
> 	mkdir linux
> 	cd linux
> 	git init rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> Another email was missing the 'scm' term.
> 
> I still don't see how to get to the official 2.6.12-rc3:
> 
> 	a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb
>

If you want a new directory that only goes to official 2.6.12-rc3, try:

    git fork linux-2.6.12-rc3 ../linux-2.6.12-rc3 a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb

This will also share the object database, so only space for the checked out files will be needed.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer