From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486849C0.7050703@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712310349260.2093@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 3:04 Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Jeff Garzik
2006-12-21 3:21 ` Jay Cliburn
2006-12-21 7:04 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-12-21 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-21 7:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-21 11:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-21 5:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-21 5:53 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-12-21 11:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-21 21:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-12-21 13:53 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-21 20:40 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-12-21 20:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-22 8:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-24 18:07 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-12-23 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-23 12:08 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 12:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-23 12:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 13:05 ` Dieter Ries
2007-12-23 17:23 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 20:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-24 14:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 12:25 ` WANG Cong
2007-12-24 12:50 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-12-25 13:08 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-12-31 2:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-31 11:26 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-31 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-30 2:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-30 6:27 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-30 2:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-07-03 6:26 ` Christian Couder
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-21 12:24 Francis Moreau
2006-12-21 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-22 1:23 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-22 4:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-22 22:20 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-22 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-22 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 23:31 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-22 23:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 9:35 ` Francis Moreau
2006-12-22 10:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 20:34 ` Francis Moreau
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