On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:54:24AM +0530, Sathesh Babu Edara wrote: > I too get same error message.I am new to GIT.I want to checkout > linux-2.6.12 tag from the git archive.Can some one help me what commands I > should use to checkout.I am trying to connect GIT repo via gitweb from my > Windows-XP system. Gitweb is for browsing repositories only, not for checking out. If you actually want to checkout from git I suggest you start by installing Linux; there apparently is a Cygwin port but I expect it to be rather slow and you may hit more interesting problems with Cygwin. Ralf