Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754893AbYF3CwN (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:52:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751285AbYF3Cv4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:51:56 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59281 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263AbYF3Cvz (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:51:55 -0400 Message-ID: <48684A46.7040802@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:51:50 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 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> In-Reply-To: <4778D1CD.4020001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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: 1287 Lines: 44 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 -- 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/