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From: Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev at dir.bg>
Subject: Re: DragonFly 2.2.1 released!
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 20:58:58 +0300
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Colin Adams wrote:
> I still get the error message (on the git branch command, this time):
>
> fatal: Not a valid oblect name: 'DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2'
>
> 2009/5/1 Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>:
>   
>> :But git checkout v2.2.1 was what i actually needed-:)
>> :
>> :So what I did was the following (in case whoever maintains the wiki
>> :page is interested):
>>
>>    2.2.1 will not track additional changes made to the 2.2.x branch
>>    though.
>>
>>    Maybe what is missing here is a local branch to track the
>>    remote branch.
>>
>>    Try this:
>>
>>    git branch origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2 DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2
>>    git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2
>>
>> :What I'm not clear about is if I need to do anything with pkgsrc. My
>> :guess is that applications shouldn't care what the X is in kernel
>> :version 2.2.X.
>>
>>    Everything in the 2.2.x series uses the same package set.
>>
>>    The main development branch (2.3.x) bumped the major version on libc
>>    which means all major packages would need to be recompiled, so I
>>    recommend sticking with the 2.2.x series for now.
>>
>>                                        -Matt
>>
>>     

Use "git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2", i.e. reverse the arguments.