Subject: Re: How to create a new branch based on a tag?

From: Ben Lau <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:23:55 +0800

Junio C Hamano wrote:

>Ben Lau <[email-masked]> writes:
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>>As v2.6.11 is a tree object(tag), git-checkout and git-branch could 
>>not process it. The
>>only way I know is using git-read-tree to fetch v2.6.11 content into 
>>current index and start
>>a branch based on it. Is there any simpler method?
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>The way you know is as good as it gets.  v2.6.11-tree case is
>really an unfortunate special case.
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What is wrong with the v2.6.11-tree? I just thought it is a duplicate tag
of v2.6.11.