From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:18:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Checkout tag?
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AUaJ_tkLSHYPZEPLuiNitRMS77b7n9JFeV6HABHj9Qiw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1327226753653-7213023.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Abscissa <bus_nabble_git@semitwist.com> wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Duy