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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:15:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Nils Radtke <lkml@Think-Future.com>
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Subject: Re: git checkout extraversion
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Nils Radtke wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   Is it possible -- and if so: how? -- to checkout specific kernel extraversion?
> 
>   Example:
> 
>   git checkout -b my2.6.39.3 2.6.39.3
> 
>   This does not work as there's no such tag "2.6.39.3" (only "2.6.39").

You need to have the stable tree

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git

Linus tree does not contain the stable tags.

Thanks,

	tglx