On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:43:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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.
I picked 2.6.12 # git checkout -f v2.6.12 applied the patch and was greeted with an error about being unable to commit telling me that I LONG_HEX_NUMBER is not a valid commit object. Isn't 2.6.12 later than 2.6.12-rcX? - 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
