From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:41:30 GMT
Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote
Message-ID: <7v1we9leb9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708111833r6588557al1876bd6aaae38204@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> What's the syntax for checking out a specific tag on a remote?

This depends on where you stored the tags you obtained from the
remote.  By default, "git fetch --tags" would store the tags in
a flat namespace; there is no "remote tag" namespace.

Hence you would say:

	git checkout v2.6.19

to get a detached HEAD at v2.6.19, or if you want to start a
branch from there,

	git checkout -b my19 v2.6.19