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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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-30  2:51 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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