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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:27:42 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> 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

I guess this is because /spare/repo/misc-2.6 does not have branches of 
/spare/repo/linux-2.6 configured as remote (tracking) branches.
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Stefan Richter
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