Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the >>> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is >>> 2.6.19-rc1. >>> >>> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and >>> then merge up to the current kernel. >>> >>> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's >>> starting point? >> >> A tag is a ref like any other: >> >> git checkout -b branchname tag > > Weird. No idea why that didn't work before, for me. > > Thanks for the clue-hammer. I think I've been in a place where I git fetched a tag and I ended up with the objects, but not with an actual local tag for it. Perhaps that happened to you. -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html