Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2005-06-23 08:19:09
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote:
Hm, that doesn't work right now.
Yeah, my suggested mod sucks. Try the following slightly modified version instead, with git fetch rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/linux-2.6.12.y.git tag v2.6.12.1 and now it should work. Linus ---
diff --git a/git-fetch-script b/git-fetch-script
--- a/git-fetch-script
+++ b/git-fetch-script@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ #!/bin/sh # +destination=FETCH_HEAD + merge_repo=$1 merge_name=${2:-HEAD} +if [ "$2" = "tag" ]; then + merge_name="refs/tags/$3" + destination="$merge_name" +fi : ${GIT_DIR=.git} : ${GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY="${SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY-"$GIT_DIR/objects"}"}
@@ -35,7 +41,7 @@ download_objects () { } echo "Getting remote $merge_name" -download_one "$merge_repo/$merge_name" "$GIT_DIR"/FETCH_HEAD || exit 1 +download_one "$merge_repo/$merge_name" "$GIT_DIR/$destination" || exit 1 echo "Getting object database" -download_objects "$merge_repo" "$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/FETCH_HEAD)" || exit 1 +download_objects "$merge_repo" "$(cat "$GIT_DIR/$destination")" || exit 1