Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752465AbXLaRcL (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:32:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751114AbXLaRb4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:31:56 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:42638 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751042AbXLaRbz (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:31:55 -0500 From: Junio C Hamano To: Stefan Richter Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git References: <200612241807.kBOI746w008739@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> <4778D1CD.4020001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:31:40 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4778D1CD.4020001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (Stefan Richter's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:26:05 +0100") Message-ID: <7v4pdy7oub.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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: 1487 Lines: 41 Stefan Richter 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. -- 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/