From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: Tags not transferred with git pull? Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:44:08 +0100 Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com Message-ID: <20051107104408.GA7283@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20051104155314.GB23790@harddisk-recovery.nl> <20051104155914.GA9567@ferdyx.org> <20051104160503.GC23790@harddisk-recovery.com> <7vll04tdsz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 07 11:44:29 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ4U3-0003oC-Bt for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:44:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751294AbVKGKoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:44:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751299AbVKGKoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:44:12 -0500 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:12133 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751294AbVKGKoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:44:12 -0500 Received: (qmail 11206 invoked by uid 501); 7 Nov 2005 11:44:08 +0100 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vll04tdsz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:26:20AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. The barebone Porcelainish shipped with > git-core does not fetch and store tags unconditionally under the > same name as the remote has without being told; you need to > explicitly tell it to 'git fetch --tags'. > > What was added recently was a low level support for Cogito to > implement the automatic tracking. This is supposed to (I do not > offhand know if the Cogito side has been updated to do so > already) work a bit differently. Instead of grabbing all tags > and all objects reachable from them, as you fetch commits from > the remote, the automatic tracking fetches tags that point at > them. What this means is that the tags on the remote branch you > are tracking would be fetched automatically but tags on a remote > branch you are not interested in are not. Thanks for the explanation. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands