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

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DSDirk Süsserott <poststelle@suesserott.de>
Date
May 25, 2008, 15:59 UTC
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<48398CDC.8070908@suesserott.de>
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Jan Krueger schrieb:
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> Hi,
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> 9d831 is the v1.5.5 tag object; 1d237 is the commit it points to. When
> you pass a tag reference to checkout, it gets dereferenced to the
> corresponding commit.
>
>

Ahh, that explains it. :-) Thanks! I sometimes mix up the different IDs Git emitts.

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