On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote:
>
> I picked 2.6.12
>
> # git checkout -f v2.6.12
>
> applied the patch and was greeted with an error about being unable to
> commit telling me that I LONG_HEX_NUMBER is not a valid commit object.
> Isn't 2.6.12 later than 2.6.12-rcX?
Yes.
However, that's not how "git checkout" ends up working, which is probably
(almost certainly) a misfeature of git checkout. In particular, when you
use a tag to checkout something, it will checkout the _state_ at that
point (ie v2.6.12), but it won't have reset your HEAD to point to it.
And your earlier adventures made your HEAD be something that isn't a
commit (although I quite frankly don't know quite how you succeeded at
that: "git checkout" should refuse to write a HEAD unless you check out a
specific branch, and all branch pointers are proper commit points).
Anyway, here's how you fix it right now, and I'll have to figure out how
to make a nice interface:
#
# Reset the "master" branch to v2.6.12
#
git-rev-list --max-count=1 v2.6.12 > .git/refs/heads/master
#
# Switch to the master branch
#
git checkout -f master
which should get you to be at a known point (which is v2.6.12).
Linus
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