On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote: > > In working through a usage example on my way to producing bonafide > patches, I've found that commit is complaining. Here's what I've done. > > o Fetched and built cogito-0.12 > o Fetched (rsync) Linus' tree > o Created a working directory, linux-2.6 > o linked .git in the working directory to the .git directory fetched > from the net. > o # git checkout -f v2.6.11
This won't work. v2.6.11 isn't a commit, it's a tree, and things will go downhill from there. Can you base it on 2.6.12-rc2 or later? That's the earliest with some real git history. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html