From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:50:10 GMT
Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote
Message-ID: <9e4733910708111850v6e9669c3i536fba49f63d0f10@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1we9leb9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "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.

I've been storing unrelated trees in the same git db. It never
occurred to me that there was a single tag name space. So if two of my
remotes both make a tag TEST then last one fetched will win? Are
"remote tag" namespaces planned for the future?


>
> 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
>
>


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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com