On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx - 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
