Subject: Re: How to checkout a tag?

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:13:06 -0400

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Sometimes I receive a kernel patch based off an older version of the
>> kernel, for example a 2.6.18 patch when the current kernel is 2.6.19-rc1.
>>
>> I would like to create a branch starting at 2.6.18, merge the patch, and
>> then merge up to the current kernel.
>>
>> How does one check out a tag, or create a branch based on a tag's
>> starting point?
> 
> A tag is a ref like any other:
> 
> 	git checkout -b branchname tag

Weird.  No idea why that didn't work before, for me.

Thanks for the clue-hammer.

	Jeff