From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:06:21 GMT
Subject: Re: How to checkout a tag?
Message-ID: <4524E72D.9030101@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <4524E2D5.3030907@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is 2.6.19-rc1.
> 
> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
> then merge up to the current kernel.
> 
> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
> starting point?

A tag is a ref like any other:

	git checkout -b branchname tag

-apw