From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:13:06 GMT
Subject: Re: How to checkout a tag?
Message-ID: <4524E8C2.3060404@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <4524E72D.9030101@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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

Weird.  No idea why that didn't work before, for me.

Thanks for the clue-hammer.

	Jeff