From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: follow tag only when tracking remote branch. Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:19:42 +0100 Message-ID: <43FCD56E.5090804@op5.se> References: <43FB6C42.5000208@gorzow.mm.pl> <20060222011338.GL5000@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <7v3bicupgb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060222031136.GN5000@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <7vacckt6vr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vfymbm72x.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, Jan Harkes X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 22 22:20:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FC1Ol-0000Uz-9H for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:19:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751303AbWBVVTo (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:19:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751282AbWBVVTo (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:19:44 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:59880 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751303AbWBVVTn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:19:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (host-213.88.215.14.addr.se.sn.net [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CB26BCBE; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:19:42 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vfymbm72x.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Unless --no-tags flag was given, git-fetch tried to always > follow remote tags that point at the commits we picked up. > > It is not very useful to pick up tags from remote unless storing > the fetched branch head in a local tracking branch. This is > especially true if the fetch is done to merge the remote branch > into our current branch as one-shot basis (i.e. "please pull"), > and is even harmful if the remote repository has many irrelevant > tags. > > This proposed update disables the automated tag following unless > we are storing the a fetched branch head in a local tracking > branch. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano > > --- > > * Likes, dislikes? > Likes a lot. This is a Good Thing. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231