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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc2 tag
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:17:26 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:01:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > I'm still not getting a 2.6.15-rc2 tag with either git-clone or
> > git-fetch --tags.  Any ideas?  Is the problem with me or with the
> > repository?
> 
> Try using 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> instead. Does that help? 

Yup, thanks.  Is there any reason to ever use http to get to your
repository?

> I don't understand how http:// works (or doesn't), so..

>>From a quick look in ethereal, it seems to be fetching

http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/info/refs

which has a list of tags that doesn't include 2.6.15-rc2.  What
generates that file?  Is it broken?

--b.