Re: git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits

Henrik Austad [off-list ref] writes:

I recently tried to do a checkout of (what I thought was the first) inux 
kernel in the linux git repo.

git checkout -b 2.6.11 v2.6.11

This should have barfed, and indeed I think it is a regression around
v1.5.5.  v1.5.4 and older git definitely fails to check out a tree object
like that.