Re: linux-x86-tip: pilot error?

From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2008, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20080622132105.GD22569@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0806220548t3fd73211v354071efe2db22e4@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 02:48:35PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

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> 2008/6/22 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> > Hello, Ingo,
> >
> > I took the precaution of rebuilding my linux-2.6-tip from scratch as follows:
> >
> >  544  mkdir linux-2.6-tip
> >  545  cd linux-2.6-tip
> >  546  git-init-db
> >  547  git-remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> >  548  git-remote add tip git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> >  549  git-remote update
> >  550  git-checkout tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon
> 
> When checking out remote branches, you have to specify the remote:
> git checkout tip/tip-blabla
> (it'll warn about detaching HEAD, this is normal).

Thank you, Mikael!

But when I try "git-checkout tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon", it says:

	error: pathspec 'tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon' did not match any file(s) known to git.
	Did you forget to 'git add'?

Trying "git-checkout tip/tip-core-rcu" gets me:

	error: pathspec 'tip/tip-core-rcu' did not match any file(s) known to git.
	Did you forget to 'git add'?

Trying "git-checkout -b tip-core-rcu tip/tip-core-rcu" gets me:

	git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing
	Did you intend to checkout 'tip/tip-core-rcu' which can not be resolved as commit?

Trying "git-checkout -b tip-core-rcu tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon" gets me:

	git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing
	Did you intend to checkout 'tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon' which can not be resolved as commit?

Trying "git-checkout -b tip-core-rcu tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon" acts like it is doing something useful, but doesn't find the recent updates, which I believe happened -before- June 16 2008.

Help???

							Thanx, Paul