On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Abscissa <bus_nabble_git@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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