git branch for 2.1.5

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Ketil Froyn 

| On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Justin Pasher <justinp at distribion.com> wrote:
| > Hello all,
| >
| > I'm trying to checkout the latest version (2.1.5) from the repository. I'm
| > new to git, so I'm fumbling around a little bit. When I do a "git branch
| > -r", the latest tag I see is origin/tags/varnish-2.1.4. It doesn't look like
| > a tag exists for 2.1.5. What is the best way to check out the 2.1.5 branch
| > without grabbing the latest revisions after that release? Thanks.
| 
| There's a tag called varnish-2.1.5 (and a tag for all the other
| versions too), so you can do:
| 
| git checkout varnish-2.1.5

Correct.

| I suspect the reason is the recent conversion from subversion to git,
| and how git handles tags in subversion when importing. Subversion
| doesn't know the difference between branches and tags, it's more a
| matter of convention there.

Again, correct.

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