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Re: Checkout tag?

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 22, 2012, 10:18 UTC
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Abscissa <bus_nabble_git@semitwist.com> wrote:
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> I've managed to figure out you switch branches with the checkout command,
> like this:
>
>>git checkout branch_name
>
> Does that work for tags as well? The docs don't seem clear on that. If not,
> how do you get the working copy to be a specific tag?

Magnus already answered your checkout question. I just want to add that you can view a tag's content even without checking out. For example,"git archive" can create a zip/tarball of any tree-ish. "git ls-tree" lets you view directory structure of a tree-ish, "git show <tree-ish>:path" lets you view content of a specific file.

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Duy
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