# syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote 5 messages from 2007-08-12 to 2007-08-12. Participants: Jon Smirl, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9499 ## Jon Smirl, 2007-08-12 01:33 Subject: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote Message-ID: <9e4733910708111833r6588557al1876bd6aaae38204@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9e4733910708111833r6588557al1876bd6aaae38204%40mail.gmail.com ``` What's the syntax for checking out a specific tag on a remote? I tried: git checkout -b my19 linus/master/v2.6.19 git checkout linus/master/v2.6.19 git checkout linus/v2.6.19 jonsmirl@terra:/home/linux$ git remote show linus * remote linus URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2007-08-12 01:41 Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote Message-ID: <7v1we9leb9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v1we9leb9.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708111833r6588557al1876bd6aaae38204@mail.gmail.com> ``` "Jon Smirl" 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. 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 ``` ## Jon Smirl, 2007-08-12 01:50 Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote Message-ID: <9e4733910708111850v6e9669c3i536fba49f63d0f10@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9e4733910708111850v6e9669c3i536fba49f63d0f10%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <7v1we9leb9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> ``` On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Jon Smirl" 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 > > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ``` ## Jon Smirl, 2007-08-12 01:57 Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote Message-ID: <9e4733910708111857h1ec88ed2t513064e3661ef49b@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9e4733910708111857h1ec88ed2t513064e3661ef49b%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708111850v6e9669c3i536fba49f63d0f10@mail.gmail.com> ``` On 8/11/07, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > "Jon Smirl" 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? This seems inconsistent to me. Remote heads have their own namespace but remote tags don't. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2007-08-12 02:01 Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote Message-ID: <7vmywxjytj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vmywxjytj.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708111850v6e9669c3i536fba49f63d0f10@mail.gmail.com> ``` "Jon Smirl" writes: > On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> "Jon Smirl" 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? There actually is no need to plan anything. Typically people do not publish "private" tags to require such a layout to differentiate tags from 47 different sources, so we have never talked about this, but you can look into .git/config file in your repository, and adjust [remote "foo"] fetch lines to your specific taste. e.g. [remote "a"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/a/* fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/remote-tags/a/* [remote "b"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/b/* fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/remote-tags/b/* ```