From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:43:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507081842550.17536@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050708230750.GA23847@buici.com>



On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote:
>
> In working through a usage example on my way to producing bonafide
> patches, I've found that commit is complaining.  Here's what I've done.
> 
>   o Fetched and built cogito-0.12
>   o Fetched (rsync) Linus' tree
>   o Created a working directory, linux-2.6
>   o linked .git in the working directory to the .git directory fetched
>     from the net.
>   o # git checkout -f v2.6.11

This won't work.

v2.6.11 isn't a commit, it's a tree, and things will go downhill from 
there. 

Can you base it on 2.6.12-rc2 or later? That's the earliest with some real 
git history.

		Linus