Using this tree git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
These two tags appear to be pointing to a tree instead of a commit.
v2.6.11
v2.6.11-tree
I'm trying to check out v2.6.11 so that I can figure out the changes a
vendor made to it.
jonsmirl@jonsmirl:/extra/linux$ git checkout -b microcross v2.6.11
Cannot switch branch to a non-commit.
I can checkout the other tags without problem.
What's the secret to checking out 2.6.11?
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Jon Smirl
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
Using this tree
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
These two tags appear to be pointing to a tree instead of a commit.
v2.6.11
v2.6.11-tree
Yes. We don't have that as a commit. The commit history starts with
v2.6.12-rc2.
I'm trying to check out v2.6.11 so that I can figure out the changes a
vendor made to it.
You can't check it out, since it's not a commit, but since it is a tree,
you can:
- use it as a base for "git diff"
git diff v2.6.11 <any-commit-goes-here>
- or if you want to use it as a base for development, create a new commit
and branch from it:
git-commit-tree v2.6.11 <<EOF
This is an initial commit starting at the state of Linux-v2.6.11
EOF
and then you can take the resulting SHA1 (that it wrote out to stdout),
and do
git checkout -b my-new-branch <sha1thatyoujustgot>
However, whatever you do, it won't be connected to the rest of the git
history.
Another possibility may be to get the historical Linux tree (which _does_
have a real v2.6.11, and that you _can_ graft together with the current
tree, and thus get full history), and then use that grafted whole-history
tree for whatever you want to do. That allows you to do things like
rebasing the end result (if you started a new branch based on 2.6.11) etc,
since it's now all connected.
Thanks for the replies, I got it working. I'm trying to decipher the
changes a vendor made to 2.6.11 when they ported it to an ARM device
and peripherals.
It is the usual situation of releasing a GPL tarball without any
documentation as to what they changed.
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Jon Smirl