Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote

On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Jon Smirl" [off-list ref] writes:

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What's the syntax for checking out a specific tag on a remote?

This depends on where you stored the tags you obtained from the
remote.  By default, "git fetch --tags" would store the tags in
a flat namespace; there is no "remote tag" namespace.

I've been storing unrelated trees in the same git db. It never
occurred to me that there was a single tag name space. So if two of my
remotes both make a tag TEST then last one fetched will win? Are
"remote tag" namespaces planned for the future?

Hence you would say:

        git checkout v2.6.19

to get a detached HEAD at v2.6.19, or if you want to start a
branch from there,

        git checkout -b my19 v2.6.19

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Jon Smirl
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