Re: How to get the latest git sources

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > Once you have that, how do you get for example 2.6.16 out of it?  I
> > assume you can get all previous 2.6 versions this way, right?
>
> No. I would guess that's not possible. Actually I would rather see it
> as a waste of resources, because if someone needs an older 2.6 version
> he or she might easily get that by going to
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

Don't know how this works on a freshly cloned tree, but I can, in fact,
roll back to any commit I like, including but not limited to actual
releases.

Now that I think about it a bit more, this absolutely _has_ to work even
with a fresh clone. Otherwise, git bisection would break.

	Michael