From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:05:02 -0400 Message-ID: <42B9FCAE.1000607@pobox.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622230905.GA7873@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 23 02:01:00 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlF9H-00076d-Ra for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:00:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261841AbVFWAGr (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:06:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261839AbVFWAGr (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:06:47 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:15537 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261843AbVFWAFJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:05:09 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-184-065-144.nc.res.rr.com ([65.184.65.144] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.51 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DlFDO-0002sH-7U; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:05:06 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote: > >>Ok, this is annoying. Is there some reason why git doesn't pull the >>tags in properly when doing a merge? Chris and I just hit this when I >>pulled his 2.6.12.1 tree and and was wondering where the tag went. > > > Tags are private in git (the same way branches are), which means that you > can have a million of your own tags and never disturb anybody else. > > But, like branches, it means that if you want a tag, you need to know the > tag you want, and download it the same way you download a branch. Still -- that's interesting data that no script currently tracks. You gotta fall back to rsync. Jeff