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

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:51:50 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
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 wrote:
> 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.


This does not work in all cases.  When I retrieve the latest kernel, it 
downloads the tags:

	cd /spare/repo/linux-2.6
	git pull

but when I pull those changes into another local repo, the tags do -not- 
follow the objects:

	cd /spare/repo/misc-2.6
	git checkout master
	git pull ../linux-2.6
	git fetch --tags ../linux-2.6	# still required to this day

Regards,

	Jeff



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