2008/6/22 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 02:48:35PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote: >> 2008/6/22 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Hello, Ingo, >> > >> > I took the precaution of rebuilding my linux-2.6-tip from scratch as follows: >> > >> > 544 mkdir linux-2.6-tip >> > 545 cd linux-2.6-tip >> > 546 git-init-db >> > 547 git-remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git >> > 548 git-remote add tip git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git >> > 549 git-remote update >> > 550 git-checkout tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon >> >> When checking out remote branches, you have to specify the remote: >> git checkout tip/tip-blabla >> (it'll warn about detaching HEAD, this is normal). > > Thank you, Mikael! > > But when I try "git-checkout tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon", > it says: > > error: pathspec 'tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon' did not match any file(s) known to git. > Did you forget to 'git add'? > > Trying "git-checkout tip/tip-core-rcu" gets me: > > error: pathspec 'tip/tip-core-rcu' did not match any file(s) known to git. > Did you forget to 'git add'? > > Trying "git-checkout -b tip-core-rcu tip/tip-core-rcu" gets me: > > git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing > Did you intend to checkout 'tip/tip-core-rcu' which can not be resolved as commit? > > Trying "git-checkout -b tip-core-rcu tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon" > gets me: > > git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing > Did you intend to checkout 'tip/tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon' which can not be resolved as commit? > > Trying "git-checkout -b tip-core-rcu tip-core-rcu-2008-06-16_09.23_Mon" > acts like it is doing something useful, but doesn't find the recent updates, > which I believe happened -before- June 16 2008. > > Help??? Oh, i didn't realize you were trying to check out a tag... In that case the commands you gave were correct. I could successfully run your commands here (though i have no idea if the file you talk about is up to date or not). It's probably worth trying a newer version of git, could be a bug I guess. Given the error message you could also try first checking out a branch, and then the tag. ie git checkout -b master linus/master; git checkout tip-foo It could also be that the tag just doesn't point to the commit you expect.. -- Mikael Magnusson -- 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
