From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:44:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits
Message-ID: <7v8wptcrhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901021325.58049.henrik@austad.us>

Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> writes:

> I recently tried to do a checkout of (what I thought was the first) inux 
> kernel in the linux git repo.
>
> git checkout -b 2.6.11 v2.6.11

This should have barfed, and indeed I think it is a regression around
v1.5.5.  v1.5.4 and older git definitely fails to check out a tree object
like that.