Re: Checkout tag?

On Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 11:05 CET,
     Abscissa [off-list ref] wrote:

I've managed to figure out you switch branches with the checkout
command, like this:

quoted

git checkout branch_name

Does that work for tags as well? The docs don't seem clear on that.
If not, how do you get the working copy to be a specific tag?

Yes, "git checkout" works for branches, tags, commit SHA-1s, and
anything else that can be resolved to a SHA-1 identifying what to
check out. The git-checkout(1) man page says the following:

       git checkout [--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...
           ... The <tree-ish> argument can be used to specify a
           specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree) ...

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