Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754729AbXLaCue (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:50:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751927AbXLaCuY (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:50:24 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:49193 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751678AbXLaCuX (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:50:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:50:22 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jeff Garzik cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git In-Reply-To: <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <200612241807.kBOI746w008739@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 25 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. -- 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/