Re: What's in git.git and announcing GIT v1.5.0-rc1

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Jan 15, 2007, 02:21 UTC
Message-ID: <200701150221.l0F2LlwJ016982@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi>

lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > The tip of 'master' branch is tagged as v1.5.0-rc1; this means a
> > few things:
> >   
> Hi
> 
> Would it make sense to add something like this to the announcements as
> it is not very easy to find references to the git-repository itself from
> the net.
> 
>    You can get the git repository-itself by using a following commands
> 
>            git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git_repo
> 
>    After that you can switch to tagged version <v1.5.0-rc1> or sources
> from the repository by using command
> 
>           git-checkout -f v1.5.0-rc1 master
> 
>    Alternatively you can download the tar packed version of sources from
>       
>           http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

Be careful, this gives you a old-fashioned repository, the repositories created by 1.5.0-rc are different, and 1.4.4.4 doesn't grok them:

   * refusing to create funny ref 'remotes/origin/*' locally

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