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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:36 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> CC: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 23 2007 06:13, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Another year, another update! :) >> >> The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates: >> >> http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html >> > > It says > > """Don't forget to download tags from time to time. > > git pull only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the requested > remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and > .git/refs/heads/ directories. For tags, run git fetch --tags $URL.""" > > > But when I do git pull on a simple tracking tree (e.g. git-clone > torvalds/linux-2.6.git; git pull;) it automatically grabs new tags. Unfortunately tags are not copied in all cases. To this day, I still have to 'git fetch --tags', generally when pulling from one local repo into another. It's annoying that tags don't follow objects, when pulled. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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