Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751553AbYF3Cum (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754515AbYF3Cu2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:50:28 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59265 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754496AbYF3Ctk (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:40 -0400 Message-ID: <486849C0.7050703@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:36 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 35 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. Unfortunately tags are not copied in all cases. To this day, I still have to 'git fetch --tags', generally when pulling from one local repo into another. It's annoying that tags don't follow objects, when pulled. Jeff -- 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/