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| Newer page: | version 22 | Last edited on Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:47:34 am | by RobertStonehouse | |
| Older page: | version 21 | Last edited on Thursday, November 1, 2007 6:16:14 am | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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git pull
git-reset
</verbatim>
-The only exception to this is that it only pulls from the master tree. If you want to pull older tags you will need to issue other commands
.
+The only exception to this is that it only pulls from the master tree.
If you want to then work on an older version then do the following for example if you want to work on 2.6.14:
<verbatim>
git-reset --hard v2.6.14
</verbatim>
+
+If you want to update to a tag older than 2.6.11 you will need to use a git repository that contains all the history that was in Bitkeeper.
Sometimes after doing a git-pull you can have fatal merge errors. The best way to resolve this is often to type git-reset.
If you get funny kernel version numbers when using [Git] it is a "feature" that can be turned off by unsetting CONFIG_LOCAL_VERSION. If you are in the menuconfig you can do this by going to General setup-->Automatically append version information to the version string.
