>> Would it make sense to add something like this to the announcements as >> it is not very easy to find references to the git-repository itself from >> the net. >> >> You can get the git repository-itself by using a following commands >> >> git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git_repo >> >> After that you can switch to tagged version <v1.5.0-rc1> or sources >> from the repository by using command >> >> git-checkout -f v1.5.0-rc1 master >> >> Alternatively you can download the tar packed version of sources from >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ >> > > Be careful, this gives you a old-fashioned repository, the repositories > created by 1.5.0-rc are different, and 1.4.4.4 doesn't grok them: > > * refusing to create funny ref 'remotes/origin/*' locally > So that would also not work if one uses git-1.4.4 client for fetching from the git-1.5.x repository? How one is then supposed to jump from head/master to tagged version? Mika - 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