linux-kernel - Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

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Message-ID: <7v4pdy7oub.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:31:40 -0800
From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> writes:

> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> 	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.
>
> A while ago the default behavior of git pull was changed to fetch all
> tags which point to objects that can be reached from any of the tracked
> heads.
>
> Old behaviour:  Option --tags was needed to fetch tags at all.  Current
> behavior:  Option --tags forces to download all tags and the objects
> they point to.  Option --no-tags works like the old default behavior.
>
> Readers of Kernel Hackers' Guide to git will most certainly have a
> recent enough version of git so that the "download_tags" subsection can
> be removed without replacement.

All correct.

That "A while ago" is quite a while ago, though.  IIRC it was
added very early in 2006, which is eons ago in git timescale.




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