Re: Which msysGit version corresponds to which official Git version?

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: May 25, 2008, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <4839839C.2040605@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <3F512BCF-1D2E-46B0-84E5-4807753A2618@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska schrieb:

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> On May 24, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
> [...]
>> I'd like to know which official Git version (as cloned
>> from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git) corresponds
>> to my msysGit version.
>
> It's not in official git.git.  msysgit is based on official
> git 1.5.5, i.e. tag v1.5.5 (9d8318051).  msysGit adds, however,
> a lot of commits that are (not yet) in official git.git.
>
>> git checkout 9d258 didn't work.
>>
>> Any hints? Is there a Website or another mailing
>> list for msysGit?
>
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
>
>     Steffen

Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I was looking for. :-)

BTW, I couldn't checkout the commit '9d8318051' you mentioned from git.git. No such something, it said. When I checked out 'v1.5.5' it said my HEAD is now '1d2375d'. Probably I messed up my clone, but I thought the commit id was unique for all time.

Whoa, stop. I re-cloned git.git to a different directory and succesfully checked out 9d8318051. Look:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
  > Initialized empty Git repository in [...]/test/git/.git/
  > remote: Counting objects: 72806, done.?[K
  > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22377/22377), done.?[K
  > remote: Total 72806 (delta 52252), reused 68863 (delta 49051)?[K
  > Receiving objects: 100% (72806/72806), 15.67 MiB | 202 KiB/s, done.
  > Resolving deltas: 100% (52252/52252), done.

$ cd git

$ git checkout 9d8318051
  > Note: moving to "9d8318051" which isn't a local branch
  > If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
  > (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
  >   git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
  > HEAD is now at 1d2375d... GIT 1.5.5

I'd expected that "HEAD is now at 9d8318051...". Wrong?
When I checkout "1d2375d" it says the very same:
  > HEAD is now at 1d2375d... GIT 1.5.5

So what's the difference then between 9d8318051 and 1d2375d? gitk doesn't know about 9d8318051 at all. Seems that there are two ways to get to v1.5.5: via 9d... and via 1d.... Is that right or did I misunderstand sth. here?

    Dirk