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 21:47:36 -0400 Message-ID: <42BA14B8.2020609@pobox.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622230905.GA7873@kroah.com> <42B9FCAE.1000607@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel=40m.gmane.org-S261841AbVFWBuX@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 23 03:48:02 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlGoz-0001y2-BD for glk-linux-kernel@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:48:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261841AbVFWBuX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:50:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261818AbVFWBuU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:50:20 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:31153 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261972AbVFWBrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:47:43 -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 1DlGoe-0002uB-Cp; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:47:40 +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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>>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. > > > Something like > > git-ssh/http-pull -w tags/ tags/ > > _should_ hopefully work now (and the "-a" flag should mean that you also > get all the objects needed for the tag). The problem isn't pulling tags, the problem is that nothing automatically downloads the 41-byte tag files themselves. Pulling linux-2.6.git after the 2.6.12 release did not cause refs/tags/v2.6.12 to be downloaded. With BK, tags came with each pull. With git, you have to go "outside the system" (rsync) just get the new tags. Jeff