On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:17:22PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:52:49PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > After realizing that Andrew don't use a git repository for the > > mm tree due to its nature, I wondered about those three lines in the > > -mm announcement: > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm2/announce.txt > > [...] > > - To fetch an -mm tree using git, use (for example) > > git-fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/smurf/linux-trees.git \ > > tag v2.6.16-rc2-mm1 > > git-checkout -b local-v2.6.16-rc2-mm1 v2.6.16-rc2-mm1 > > [...] > > > > But the latest pull is a 2.6.16 kernel, Are those lines out of date?. > > Looks like they're on a different branch, the tree is tagged upto > v2.6.20-mm2. Just try the recipe above and replace all "2.6.16-rc2-mm1" > with "2.6.20-mm2". Thanks, it worked. Sorry, I wasn't aware of the `tags' feature in git. -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish-07.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
