Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964918AbVI2VXH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:23:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbVI2VXH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:23:07 -0400 Received: from citi.umich.edu ([141.211.133.111]:2177 "EHLO citi.umich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751334AbVI2VXG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:23:06 -0400 Message-ID: <433C5B34.9060907@citi.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:23:00 -0400 From: Chuck Lever Reply-To: cel@citi.umich.edu Organization: Network Appliance, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 (X11/20050719) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated References: <433BC9E9.6050907@pobox.com> <20050929200252.GA31516@redhat.com> <433C4B6D.6030701@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <433C4B6D.6030701@pobox.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080704090108050103010306" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2255 Lines: 74 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080704090108050103010306 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > >> You wrote.. >> >> $ git clone >> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git >> linux-2.6 >> $ cd linux-2.6 >> $ rsync -a --verbose --stats --progress \ >> >> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ >> \ >> .git/ >> >> Could be just.. >> >> $ git clone >> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git >> linux-2.6 >> $ cd linux-2.6 >> $ git pull >> >> Likewise, in the next section, git pull doesn't need an argument >> if pulling from the repo it cloned. > > > > Nope. It intentionally includes the manual rsync because clone/pull > doesn't seem to grab tags. Or at least last time I checked... i just used the instructions at the bottom of your web page to grab new tags, and it completely wiped all my Stacked Git metadata. (fortunately i was trying this in a test repository, and it will be simple to recover the missing files). so, this is probably something that should have a warning, or maybe you might consider providing an example that won't wipe out existing files and directories under .git/ ... --------------080704090108050103010306 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="cel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cel.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Chuck Lever n:Lever;Charles org:Network Appliance, Incorporated;Linux NFS Client Development adr:535 West William Street, Suite 3100;;Center for Information Technology Integration;Ann Arbor;MI;48103-4943;USA email;internet:cel@citi.umich.edu title:Member of Technical Staff tel;work:+1 734 763 4415 tel;fax:+1 734 763 4434 tel;home:+1 734 668 1089 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.monkey.org/~cel/ version:2.1 end:vcard --------------080704090108050103010306-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/