From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:36 -0400 Message-ID: <486849C0.7050703@garzik.org> References: <200612241807.kBOI746w008739@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List To: Jan Engelhardt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 30 04:51:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KD9UK-00066f-Jt for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:51:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751441AbYF3CuY (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:50:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754551AbYF3CuW (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:50:22 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59265 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754496AbYF3Ctk (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:49:40 -0400 Received: from cpe-069-134-153-115.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.153.115] helo=core.yyz.us) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KD9ST-0000Fz-Dm; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:49:39 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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